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Speaker 2: to talk about U A sports right.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You're a big You're a big dude in in in
Speaker 2: the I shouldn't say big, big supporter of the program
Speaker 2: and have been for years.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, wildcat for life for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh what you you a grat?
Speaker 4: I am?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: Who you?
Speaker 6: Can?
Speaker 7: I ask you what you're ninety Jewish lady. Jewish took
Speaker 7: me a little while I had fun and called and.
Speaker 2: As you should, as we all should. Uh so so now, uh,
Speaker 2: I'm sure you were liking what was going on for
Speaker 2: a while, uh this decade?
Speaker 4: Yeah, how do you feel now? Well?
Speaker 7: As a fan, I mean, I'm I'm you know, there's
Speaker 7: some pain. I love the way baseball ended last year.
Speaker 7: I love that we went out as a last PAC twelve. Yeah, champion.
Speaker 7: I think that was amazing fun to be part of that.
Speaker 7: And liked what happened last year. And in our big
Speaker 7: sports you know, if you want to call them that
Speaker 7: last season, yeah, yeast season and you know it, it's
Speaker 7: I get it.
Speaker 4: Things happened. You know, we all have our our ups
Speaker 4: and downs. I think.
Speaker 7: My my perspective on this is like, you know, the
Speaker 7: Wildcats and Tucson are synonymous, they go hand in hand.
Speaker 7: I think we can't no matter what's going on, we
Speaker 7: can't afford, you know, our community can't afford not to
Speaker 7: support that that team, good or bad, good or bad?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 3: Bad?
Speaker 2: Right? Right? I'm sure I know we all know what
Speaker 2: you do for a living with your great restaurants. Is
Speaker 2: life better when they're winning when it coordates to you?
Speaker 7: Absolutely, I'm lucky enough to have some information in front
Speaker 7: of me now, and then that kind of wakes me up.
Speaker 7: And for the facts that are in front of us
Speaker 7: as a community. And I was in I was at
Speaker 7: a presentation for a visit Tucson. I'm on the board
Speaker 7: of that, and we were looking at some numbers and
Speaker 7: on this chart were the biggest tourism bed tax, which
Speaker 7: also you can correlate that there's probably good sales tax
Speaker 7: attached to that, which is what pays for fire and
Speaker 7: safety and et cetera in our community. Of the big
Speaker 7: dates that were on that graph, five of the biggest dates,
Speaker 7: four or five of the biggest dates in our community,
Speaker 7: we're tied of the university and JEM shows one of them,
Speaker 7: of course, almost number one. Yeah, we all know, well,
Speaker 7: that's just funny, it's not it's not really in actuality.
Speaker 7: When you looked at what they were talking about, parents weekend,
Speaker 7: you know, homecoming, you know, you of a move in graduation,
Speaker 7: those are huge dates of commerce for the Tucson business community.
Speaker 2: I would have never ever thought that, Yeah, okay, And so.
Speaker 7: When you correlate them against like something against like the
Speaker 7: Gem Show, or compared to the Gem Show, you realize
Speaker 7: how really critical important it is. And if we have
Speaker 7: a team or teams that are performing at those times,
Speaker 7: you know, then I think those numbers go up. Conversely,
Speaker 7: if we have teams that aren't or it's not going well,
Speaker 7: or we're not playing a worthy component let's say opponent,
Speaker 7: rather maybe maybe they go down. Yeah, you know last
Speaker 7: year last season, when Washington came into town and they
Speaker 7: were doing well and we were doing well, there was
Speaker 7: rumors that there were hotel rooms on the black market,
Speaker 7: one for two thousand a night, that people had gone
Speaker 7: out and sub We're subleasing apartments like on Craig, you know,
Speaker 7: condos and hotels because it was in such hot demand.
Speaker 7: That's that doesn't happen a lot in Tucson, and that's
Speaker 7: tied to, you know, our athletic performance. So I don't
Speaker 7: I don't sit here like this diehard fan that just
Speaker 7: because of wins or losses. I look at it like
Speaker 7: it's good business and we need to support that. Sure,
Speaker 7: how how often would you see that? That's I'm sure
Speaker 7: you did. What was last week?
Speaker 2: Last Friday was the twenty second right Duke was in town.
Speaker 2: Not a whole lot of Duke fans coming into town.
Speaker 4: A pretty good amount.
Speaker 7: But I mean a few, right, I mean, what's the
Speaker 7: weather like elsewhere in the world, and when our sports
Speaker 7: are going on, everywhere else is not as wasn't.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's beautiful here right now?
Speaker 7: Yeah, right, you know if if hopefully uh you know,
Speaker 7: it's more it's pretty er here than Phoenix too, for sure,
Speaker 7: So hopefully we'll see a lot of them come down
Speaker 7: and that will beat them.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I assume it could be maybe forty sixty
Speaker 2: if Arizona fans, you know, kind of the the loyal
Speaker 2: UI fans decided to go back because there'll be a
Speaker 2: lot of a issue fans. Yeah, well, typically you've been
Speaker 2: there a number of times where the underdog, which Arizona is,
Speaker 2: always comes through a issues too when they're underdog.
Speaker 7: Sure, yeah, it's a it's a it is a true rivalry,
Speaker 7: and it's a true business rivalry. We have friends of
Speaker 7: our who are in business up there. It's a I
Speaker 7: remember I was partners with the Basha family and we
Speaker 7: did a business together, and and Trey or Edward the
Speaker 7: third bash of was the asu Grad and we had
Speaker 7: a meeting once and in the room they were replaying
Speaker 7: the U of a game against a su and it
Speaker 7: was one at ASU one.
Speaker 4: Sure, it was a tough meeting for me. Bro and
Speaker 4: I had a tough.
Speaker 7: Meeting that day because I already knew we already knew
Speaker 7: that we lost, but I had to sit there while
Speaker 7: it was replaying in the background.
Speaker 4: He enjoyed every minute of it.
Speaker 2: Right right, Well, now the next time you have a
Speaker 2: meeting down here, you know what to do, absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: So so you let's let's be transparent. You feed the guys,
Speaker 2: you feed the football team.
Speaker 7: At least, we do a lot of catering for the
Speaker 7: U of A, do a lot of sports team food
Speaker 7: fulfillment for the university, just and and a lot of
Speaker 7: they're pretty good about spreading the business around to a
Speaker 7: lot of locals. Of course, you know, there's there's the
Speaker 7: chain restaurants. You can't help, you know, the kids like
Speaker 7: the Chick fil A or whatever have you. But we're
Speaker 7: fortunate to be in there. We work with a nutritionists
Speaker 7: on a lot of different teams, everything from track and
Speaker 7: field to swimming to the girls sports in the men's sports.
Speaker 4: So we we've been lucky and we.
Speaker 7: Have a restaurant that kind of is almost dedicated to
Speaker 7: that right. We have a little restaurant called Charo Chico
Speaker 7: over on Campbell and Prints our newest venture, and we
Speaker 7: we use that kitchen a lot to satisfy the needs
Speaker 7: of you of action.
Speaker 4: So it's what is it?
Speaker 2: It's uh good? Arran?
Speaker 4: Was it? No? No charge? Chico's a taco shop. I
Speaker 4: mean it has kind of everything.
Speaker 7: But we don't just make you know, our our known
Speaker 7: Mexican food stuff there. We'll do kind of everything. They like,
Speaker 7: you know, Asian ginger chicken, or they like Mongolian bee,
Speaker 7: or they might they might like a Greek salad.
Speaker 4: So we do.
Speaker 7: We have some chefs there that are pretty well versed
Speaker 7: and we do a lot of different food for them.
Speaker 7: And again in consideration of what the nutrition is. Want
Speaker 7: one of the what are the kids' favorites?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: Kids are?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're they're athletes, right, and well they got to
Speaker 7: have a lot of protein, right, so a lot of
Speaker 7: time there's a lot of chicken, a lot of steak.
Speaker 7: They love, they love Middle Eastern flavors, they like Mediterranean flavors,
Speaker 7: a lot of Asian flavors. And then you know, they
Speaker 7: we do what we do well with the Mexican food
Speaker 7: side with them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, of course. Uh, let's talk real quick
Speaker 2: about the show that we're gonna have today. We're going
Speaker 2: to talk a little bit more about foot All the
Speaker 2: big Game this weekend with one of our regulars Lamont Hunley,
Speaker 2: talked about what's going on for Saturday. We always good
Speaker 2: and honest thoughts from Lamont. And then in the second hour,
Speaker 2: we're gonna have your guy right to Ben.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're gonna bring Ben Chulick on from the Arizona.
Speaker 2: Ball right right there. Done a fantastic job. I know
Speaker 2: that they're trying to get some tickets sold here. I'm
Speaker 2: sure I'm getting I'm getting a few for for myself
Speaker 2: for that big game.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, that's again something that is going to bring a
Speaker 7: lot of dollars and financial impact to our community. And
Speaker 7: the more sold out the stadium is, the more those
Speaker 7: sponsors and those those people that have invested are going
Speaker 7: to have a return, and that's what we want. So
Speaker 7: they keep coming back here every year. Typically we've seen
Speaker 7: a pretty good game. Now we have a pretty big
Speaker 7: name attached to it. Really, how much how much do
Speaker 7: you think that name? This is a stupid question, It's
Speaker 7: an easy question, but has has helped with the sales
Speaker 7: or the worldwide look at it. I think it's a
Speaker 7: timing issue, right if if number one, I don't know
Speaker 7: if we would have landed this had it been after
Speaker 7: the right right because he became he blew up so
Speaker 7: much with his you know, with that kind of almost
Speaker 7: risky move that the Olympics made to put him involved.
Speaker 7: He became even more important and more of a celebrity
Speaker 7: and more powerful because he transcended his just his rap
Speaker 7: career and became this really kind of great spokesperson.
Speaker 4: So I think the Bowl got lucky.
Speaker 7: Great timing on the Bowl committee and kimideron that team
Speaker 7: to do that and picking up the pieces from the
Speaker 7: barstool sports part and getting this and then you know
Speaker 7: there's more to it. I don't know if you know
Speaker 7: he's bringing his youth football program here. I mean he's
Speaker 7: going to have some twenty I think plus teams youth
Speaker 7: football coming to Tucson. Those are families, that's what we want, right.
Speaker 7: Those are family staying in hotels, eating out at restaurants,
Speaker 7: shopping locally. That's what we want. We want that multi
Speaker 7: generational tourism into our market to fall in love with
Speaker 7: Tucson because they can come back here and way we
Speaker 7: can do more.
Speaker 4: With them, and at a great time of the year, right,
Speaker 4: hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know all he predicts every year seventy one degrees,
Speaker 2: but you know, could could very well happen. Happens a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and what does Arizona or what does Tucson say? The
Speaker 2: most beautiful weather? Absolutely the beautiful weather, and the great
Speaker 2: food and the great food, right right, you can and
Speaker 2: you have a variety of lists, obviously, sure from you
Speaker 2: know the varieties. Yeah, okay, Uh, let's let's kind of
Speaker 2: stick with football. Well, we're still at it. Then we'll
Speaker 2: go to basketball in a bit. No, no, no, let's start
Speaker 2: with basketball because we can always and talked more with
Speaker 2: with Lamont basketball. To a man, it's probably disappointing so far,
Speaker 2: but I've always said, nothing happens in November, even when
Speaker 2: they do well in November.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And here we are, right, they play tomorrow in the Bahamas. Uh,
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. Time to regroup, kind of see
Speaker 2: you get away and and kind of see what happens.
Speaker 2: You were at the game on Friday, I saw I
Speaker 2: saw your highlights of the of the girl who who's
Speaker 2: tossing plates on the phenomenal Yeah she is. Everyone was
Speaker 2: pulling for her and she pulled it off. Your thoughts
Speaker 2: on this team, well, it's sport, it's youth. I do
Speaker 2: think that there's a like behind it all. And I
Speaker 2: actually was with Lamont one year and I don't think
Speaker 2: he'll remember to start, I'll bring it up. When we
Speaker 2: were in an airport together, we were talking about kids
Speaker 2: getting paid and what you know, this may before, before, before,
Speaker 2: and I out right, and so now that there's this
Speaker 2: money involved, you know, is.
Speaker 4: That added pressure? Is that an added distraction?
Speaker 7: It's so new, it's such a wild West environment With that,
Speaker 7: it kind of wondered, like, what are these coaches managing
Speaker 7: because they're no longer just managing the expectation of a
Speaker 7: basketball game. They're running a business with employees, and it's
Speaker 7: a very different environment and that performance and what does
Speaker 7: that translate to the image the highlight reeal issues.
Speaker 4: I can't.
Speaker 7: I can't imagine what it's like now. I go back
Speaker 7: like you, I mean, we're older and we've been in
Speaker 7: the game for a while. But while I didn't wasn't
Speaker 7: on your side of sports or in sports involved, I
Speaker 7: always had athletes around because we had entertained.
Speaker 2: You probably know more about it than me because they
Speaker 2: could be open more.
Speaker 7: Open, absolutely, But I also remember being like slapped on
Speaker 7: the wrist if I was going to buy an athlete
Speaker 7: a burrito, you know, because I couldn't do anything before sure,
Speaker 7: you know, and we had athletes that were friends that
Speaker 7: I couldn't even buy a dinner for without a violation issue.
Speaker 7: So now it's so different, you know, it's it's got
Speaker 7: to be different for them to in the culture their face.
Speaker 2: You hit it on the head at least in my philosophy.
Speaker 2: How are you going to be you know, Brennan, Tommy Lloyd,
Speaker 2: whomever a dea bars these people? These student athletes are
Speaker 2: making pretty good money. Pretty good money, I'm not, you know,
Speaker 2: not a little money. How do you tell these student athletes,
Speaker 2: I want to call kids or not kids after they're
Speaker 2: making money, to do better, to work harder, to do
Speaker 2: all these things.
Speaker 4: But they're already getting paid, right, right.
Speaker 2: You're your boss, you have these people, you're and and
Speaker 2: I know this is a bad way to look at it,
Speaker 2: but these kids are getting paid and they have already
Speaker 2: been paid, right, How do you motivate them.
Speaker 7: And they've got a million voices in their head and
Speaker 7: a million voices in their ear is telling them what they're
Speaker 7: worth right down there's grass is greener on some other side.
Speaker 4: And sure, you know, how can you not be distracted
Speaker 4: by that? And that?
Speaker 7: Heck, at any age, I mean I've been distracted right
Speaker 7: now right assured said, hey, Ray, you can come do
Speaker 7: this for that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, give up what you have now I'll make
Speaker 2: it even better right over here, right you know, that's
Speaker 2: it's a tough decision. I'm not sure if you could
Speaker 2: talk about this, and I don't know, maybe we'll talk
Speaker 2: about it out the air. We have a discussion here
Speaker 2: in the spring, nil potential. You want to talk about
Speaker 2: that or can you talk about Do you remember our conversation?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, we've been working on some solutions in my
Speaker 7: side businesses. I've always kind of been in marketing and
Speaker 7: event type of programming. We did a lot with back
Speaker 7: in the day in the casino space. That was my
Speaker 7: background and helped do a lot with Abba. Heck, the
Speaker 7: Tamali Festival is going on right now.
Speaker 4: I'm proud to know. I'm proud to let everybody.
Speaker 7: Know that I helped start the Tamali Festival down at
Speaker 7: Abba and the Casino.
Speaker 4: But you know, I think.
Speaker 7: What the Arizona Bowl was doing, what some of these
Speaker 7: collectives are doing out there, two different animals, but could
Speaker 7: be potentially an evolution to where the hospitality rather the
Speaker 7: nonprofit community sector could actually benefit from having athletes in
Speaker 7: our community out there doing good and out there doing things.
Speaker 7: I think we might be able to do that with
Speaker 7: something like a fifty to fifty raffle that the Diamond
Speaker 7: Bats do, that the Dodgers do, a lot of professional
Speaker 7: teams do, and some colleges do it. Kentucky's doing it
Speaker 7: right now and bringing that into the fold with the
Speaker 7: university to help. So we've you know, we've created some
Speaker 7: concepts for them to look at really just as a
Speaker 7: support machn sure to figure out, hey, sure, how do
Speaker 7: we make a little more fun to go to a game?
Speaker 7: Maybe gamify it a little bit at adding some function
Speaker 7: where you know, you might win some money, but also
Speaker 7: you might do a lot of good for the local
Speaker 7: community through the use of athletes and their and their
Speaker 7: prowess and their and their and their connections.
Speaker 2: We have just less than a minute, so you've already
Speaker 2: proposed that we've been working on it for all Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so and you've said Kentucky already instituted, yeah, yes, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure many others a few others.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: Uh. When we talked, I thought it was a fantastic idea.
Speaker 2: And each game, right, each game you get something. It's
Speaker 2: money you don't have now, right that you could generate
Speaker 2: six games whatever Sigamas games do you make twenty five thousand, whatever.
Speaker 7: The price, but there's a twenty thousand dollars pot, and
Speaker 7: half of it goes to a charity, and half of
Speaker 7: it goes to a winning fan, and the charity hires
Speaker 7: athletes to to put on youth youth events, youth camps,
Speaker 7: motivational clinics, things like that. For a community, I think,
Speaker 7: I think one thing, Having a fifteen year old baseball player,
Speaker 7: for instance, in my household, you know, they become tone
Speaker 7: deaf when the gray hair start coming out. Having some
Speaker 7: of these youth athletes talking to the kid athletes like
Speaker 7: these U of a guys.
Speaker 4: Talking to you of a kids? What amazing mentorship?
Speaker 2: Short me, no, no, no question. I will talk more
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Speaker 2: then talk to mister Hunley here on the other side.
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Speaker 2: Can you hear me down on Lamont?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: How are you good afternoon? Lamon, honey, We're good afternoon.
Speaker 2: How are you guys? We're doing fine. I have mister
Speaker 2: Ray Flores here with me.
Speaker 3: You got my little buddy with me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, let me ask them.
Speaker 7: Was busying selling equipment right now, So that's why he was.
Speaker 7: He's taking an order, I know him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got you got some commercial suner. You got
Speaker 2: Reggie Geary doing something, some work and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, but you know the problem is I had
Speaker 3: to pay Reggie though the rest of my talent is free.
Speaker 4: Expensive and you never see Reggie wear the same thing twice?
Speaker 3: Right word, no, exactly.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you before we get into the
Speaker 2: to the weekends games, uh and the and the game,
Speaker 2: what's your fondest memory as a player playing against the issue?
Speaker 6: Well, you know my well my obviously, my fondest memory
Speaker 6: is beating them all, beating them at least three years
Speaker 6: of the time that I played against them.
Speaker 3: My freshman year we.
Speaker 6: Lost, but from there on we that's my sophomore years
Speaker 6: when we started the street, the street back in those days,
Speaker 6: that that ten year running street. But as far as
Speaker 6: actual strong memoryes is, you know the impact of the
Speaker 6: game of winning the games and what it meant to
Speaker 6: the community here in Tucson.
Speaker 3: I mean I can.
Speaker 6: Recall, you know, watching the fans just you know, standing
Speaker 6: there cheering us on, and even up there when we played.
Speaker 3: Them up in h in Phoenix.
Speaker 6: I mean, our our fan base was so strong and
Speaker 6: travels with us. So even after the game, we had
Speaker 6: that corner where our fan base was there and you know,
Speaker 6: cheering us on and showing out, showing appreciation to you know.
Speaker 3: From what we did throughout the game and whatnot.
Speaker 6: So you know, I still see those memories and still
Speaker 6: watch people cheering us on after we you know, we
Speaker 6: beat up on the scum doubles, right, what yours growing up.
Speaker 2: Well as a day huse kick or something.
Speaker 7: I mean this, I mean, sure, Max, I've seen Max
Speaker 7: win was great.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: I I have a lot of friends, Like I said,
Speaker 7: they do business in Phoenix with us, and we're always
Speaker 7: looked at as a little you know, the little step
Speaker 7: child down here. So anytime we beat any of them,
Speaker 7: it's a great day for me because I love I
Speaker 7: love rubbing it up there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you remember much about the Honey Brothers.
Speaker 4: You're really a lot older than me.
Speaker 5: You were.
Speaker 6: Specifically, Hey, it's Ray was one of those not whole sections.
Speaker 4: I was a kid out there selling stuff. Are you
Speaker 4: getting me? I always worked the game time right.
Speaker 2: Tell me historically and it's invariably historically that it's always
Speaker 2: the underdog that shows up to play big games. And
Speaker 2: here we are, m hm oh yeah.
Speaker 6: And you know that's that always been the history in
Speaker 6: regards to that game. You know, the underdog, you know,
Speaker 6: because that's I mean, what else they got to play for?
Speaker 6: It is more than I mean, basically pride and and
Speaker 6: and we're in that situation now where we're playing for pride,
Speaker 6: you know, we we're playing for the bragging rights of
Speaker 6: the state coach.
Speaker 3: The coaching staff is playing for recruiting rights of the state.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: So if you can go out there and and and
Speaker 6: and take control of this game and win this game,
Speaker 6: I mean, you got a whole year that you can brag,
Speaker 6: you know, to those guys up north. It you know,
Speaker 6: you know, you won this game, and you capture this game,
Speaker 6: and you got the best recruits because of that, and
Speaker 6: it's just hold on to it. I mean, I tell
Speaker 6: you one thing, when you when you go up there
Speaker 6: and and you've got relationships, and off my case, you
Speaker 6: end up getting relationship with some of the guys you
Speaker 6: played against. And you know, at that point in time.
Speaker 3: It's not as you know, violent as it used to be.
Speaker 6: But now it becomes more it becomes more more of
Speaker 6: a one up on them and a jab on them,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 3: So those guys that I see that I.
Speaker 6: You know, I played against, or maybe generations before me
Speaker 6: or years before me, you know, So having having the
Speaker 6: fact that we won that game, and we can and
Speaker 6: I can look at those guys and laugh at those
Speaker 6: guys and let them know that we got your butts
Speaker 6: this year, you know, and and and none you can
Speaker 6: do about it.
Speaker 3: Just take it. Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean I growing up as a fan, growing as
Speaker 7: a local tuths On guy, and you know, now with
Speaker 7: everything that's changed, and I think this is probably what
Speaker 7: prompted Steve da ask me to come on today. Emotionally speaking,
Speaker 7: this is like the one game really that matters to me.
Speaker 7: I mean not that I don't want to beat TCU,
Speaker 7: I don't want to beat some other school, but the
Speaker 7: fact that there's no more packed well, the fact that
Speaker 7: those games of driving eight hours to see you know
Speaker 7: us beat up on USC or being in that stadium,
Speaker 7: or being in the coliseum. The fact that all that's
Speaker 7: gone and what we're left with really is this singular
Speaker 7: this singular rivalry. It's somewhat poetic, but it's also it
Speaker 7: means almost so much more right now for me because
Speaker 7: this is kind of it, Like my kid, I think
Speaker 7: it's going to take a generation for people to fall
Speaker 7: back in love with beating a Kansas for beating because
Speaker 7: like for me, I don't, you know, I want to win,
Speaker 7: but I mean I wanted to kill I wanted us
Speaker 7: to see his beat all those packed packed twelve schools all.
Speaker 4: It's what I grew up with.
Speaker 7: Like, I wanted us to win everything we could possibly
Speaker 7: win with, you know. And now it's just like, oh,
Speaker 7: we beat tc where's TCU again? You know? And and
Speaker 7: again I'm not I'm a I'm a Wildcat fan. That
Speaker 7: doesn't mean I'm this sports fan. I like sports, but
Speaker 7: I mean I'm not going to read up about I
Speaker 7: don't read the sports pages. I followed the Wildcats so
Speaker 7: when they're playing teams that I know that I've been
Speaker 7: to those stadiums, and of course you know I've been
Speaker 7: in that stadium when we when we've lost. It's pretty
Speaker 7: rough being a Wildcat fan in that stadium. And I've
Speaker 7: seen the way they behave and you know, I'm the
Speaker 7: guy that was at the current game when they talk
Speaker 7: bad to him, you know, and his father and know
Speaker 7: about that. So I've had I've had an anger about
Speaker 7: as U for for since I was a little kid.
Speaker 7: So I want to see his beat them all the
Speaker 7: time in every sport makes sense.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: That's just to pick it back on what you're saying
Speaker 6: that Ray looking at it at that perspective, I honestly
Speaker 6: never did because of the fact is that, like you say,
Speaker 6: you know, we we we're losing something.
Speaker 3: We lost something traditionally.
Speaker 6: Being the Pac twelve, you know, and and and and
Speaker 6: game in and game out, there was always something you know,
Speaker 6: regards to playing a Pack twelve opponent. And the only
Speaker 6: thing that we got left of that is you don't
Speaker 6: playing the issue, you know, And I think I think
Speaker 6: that is a very you know, stronger point, a point
Speaker 6: that you make not only from you know, a fans perspective,
Speaker 6: but also as a formal player, you know, because that's
Speaker 6: the only thing we can hold on too, as far
Speaker 6: as having you know, something that associated with the Pac
Speaker 6: twelve or Pack ten or Pack eight, whatever you want
Speaker 6: to call it, because that's the only thing that exists
Speaker 6: now is playing SU and that that traditional rivalry you know,
Speaker 6: that's been going on for such a long period of time.
Speaker 6: You know, it's it's the only thing that can hold
Speaker 6: us to that conference again.
Speaker 3: So that I think that's a real good perspective there
Speaker 3: that you just made.
Speaker 7: Well, there's a romanticism right to sports, right, there's a
Speaker 7: sort of there's an emotional connection, there's one that it's
Speaker 7: got passion in it, and and when you don't have that,
Speaker 7: like I've never been in those stadiums that we're playing
Speaker 7: in now, I don't know if I'll get to it.
Speaker 7: At this junction of my life. I'm pretty busy. I'm
Speaker 7: not if I'm going to fly across the country and
Speaker 7: a special game, it'd have to be and I don't
Speaker 7: want to be in snow or cold weather, so I'm
Speaker 7: kind of abanzing when it comes to that. I want
Speaker 7: to stay on the well where it's warm. So for me,
Speaker 7: not going back to the colls him. But you know,
Speaker 7: at least I can go up to you know, Tempe
Speaker 7: Stadium and see us win there.
Speaker 4: That's something that I feel like.
Speaker 2: If I could real quick with that. So they're four
Speaker 2: and seven right now, right, So, so they win this
Speaker 2: and it's been it's been I don't know if miserables right,
Speaker 2: and it word for the season. You can tell me
Speaker 2: what the word is for you guys. But now they
Speaker 2: if they win five and five and seven, does that
Speaker 2: sound better? Does it feel better because it beat the
Speaker 2: issue or it's.
Speaker 4: Still a season that wasn't pleasing? Go ahead?
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I think the thing back then is that
Speaker 6: you know, when you when you're under five hundred, to me,
Speaker 6: it's just unacceptable period.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just unacceptable.
Speaker 6: I mean if the fact that they couldn't go a
Speaker 6: bowl game is unacceptable in my eyes in regards to
Speaker 6: my expectation of what we what I was looking forward
Speaker 6: to them wanting, you know, and so that's unacceptable but disappointing.
Speaker 6: But but but when this game and beating their hue,
Speaker 6: I mean, it's it's just basically going to allow me to.
Speaker 3: You know, possibly take some of that.
Speaker 6: Pressure off of them in regards to that because the
Speaker 6: fact that we did beat these guys and not giving
Speaker 6: and we beat them at a critical time, because the
Speaker 6: fact is that these guys could be playing in the pot,
Speaker 6: the Big Twelve championship game, you know, you know, so
Speaker 6: by beating them. And actually it goes back to my
Speaker 6: I think it was my sophomore year. We played them
Speaker 6: here and they came down with the roses in their
Speaker 6: mouths and they ready to you know, come in here
Speaker 6: and just you know, kill us and go back up
Speaker 6: there and go to Rose Bowl.
Speaker 3: And we end up taking that opportunity from them.
Speaker 6: And and I think that's basically what this game at
Speaker 6: this point in time is all about, you know, taking
Speaker 6: that opportunity away from them, as far as trying to
Speaker 6: get that being able to go to the to the
Speaker 6: Big twelve and playing in that championship game, you know,
Speaker 6: and that right there will be a big old sting
Speaker 6: to them because that's a lot of money they could
Speaker 6: be taken off the table if we take that opportunity
Speaker 6: from them.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I look, I come at it from again a
Speaker 7: fans perspective, a business perspective.
Speaker 4: Again.
Speaker 7: You know, I don't have the player's background that Lamont
Speaker 7: has going through all that and the emotion, but I
Speaker 7: can tell you that it in the in the columns
Speaker 7: of wins and losses. I'd like to see Tucson have
Speaker 7: more more marks than the win callm than losses against
Speaker 7: Phoenix in general. I mean, we look, they got spring
Speaker 7: training from us. You know, they get they get the
Speaker 7: Final Fours, they get the Super Bowls. We need this,
Speaker 7: like our community needs this. It's important to everybody beyond
Speaker 7: and it's and it's to me. It's bigger than the
Speaker 7: football game. So I hope they do. I hope they
Speaker 7: put it all on the line.
Speaker 4: And win this one.
Speaker 2: So Solomon, you talked, you said something earlier that struck me,
Speaker 2: and you would know this because you're a former player.
Speaker 2: So UVEA beats them here this weekend. And you've talked
Speaker 2: about recruiting battles or whatever. Do you think kids really
Speaker 2: care about that stuff or now with nil and opportunities
Speaker 2: to play and all that stuff, that even matters.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm I still think that an impact of a
Speaker 6: rivalry game and how it turns out because it's an
Speaker 6: emotional thing at the moment.
Speaker 3: I mean, they see, you know, the.
Speaker 6: Emotion of that game take place in regards to you know,
Speaker 6: it can be just recruits on the sideline that's just
Speaker 6: here for this weekend.
Speaker 3: And these kids would you know what. Anyway, The thing is.
Speaker 6: They could work both ways, boss, because that kid might
Speaker 6: be thinking he's you.
Speaker 3: Know, he might be going to Sue. And I'm talking to.
Speaker 6: More kids that's in this local community because these kids
Speaker 6: want to be able to have their parents and their
Speaker 6: family see them play, you know, so we can have
Speaker 6: us one of those star kids Moud in the Phoenix
Speaker 6: area to come.
Speaker 3: Down here and be on that sideline. And he and
Speaker 3: he realized that, well, you know what, Gosh, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe I need to be down here. I like the environment,
Speaker 3: but I see with what these guys doing on the
Speaker 3: sideline with with with their players, I like what they see.
Speaker 6: And everything like that, and it gives me an opportunity,
Speaker 6: you know, far enough away but close enough with my parents,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 3: So I think it does.
Speaker 6: Work on that end as far as the emotion of
Speaker 6: the game at that moment. And and now I can
Speaker 6: reflect back when I my recruiting trip here as a
Speaker 6: high school senior was the ESU game. So I came
Speaker 6: out here on the ESU game and I looked out there.
Speaker 6: We got beat fifty sixty seven, I think it was,
Speaker 6: and I believe that was the Vernon.
Speaker 3: I call it the Vernon.
Speaker 6: Maxwell game because he beat us up and down the field. Okay,
Speaker 6: Ricky wasn't playing, Pace wasn't playing. All these linebackers wasn't playing.
Speaker 6: They was all out, you know. So now me, I'm like, God,
Speaker 6: this gives me an opportunity to come to a university
Speaker 6: that I can be a part of and play.
Speaker 3: And playing linebacker. They probably need me more than ever,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 6: So, I mean it's just those little twists like that
Speaker 6: and those things that you think as a kid that
Speaker 6: does can take place and will take place, and the
Speaker 6: motion of the.
Speaker 3: Game will happen.
Speaker 2: So to both of you, guys, we have about three
Speaker 2: three four minutes. What needs to happen this week? Yeah,
Speaker 2: read first.
Speaker 7: Well, it's the last game for us, right, I mean,
Speaker 7: you should go out on a high note, the simplest
Speaker 7: terms of all life things. I mean, but you play
Speaker 7: your ass and you go out on top.
Speaker 4: I mean it.
Speaker 7: You know, I've had restaurants that we've closed before. In
Speaker 7: the last day it was probably more memorable than the first.
Speaker 7: So you know, it's the last game. This one matters.
Speaker 4: You got to go out on top. Yeah, what about you?
Speaker 3: You know, well, you know I. I. I remember one
Speaker 3: time I talked to the kids. They you know, they
Speaker 3: they years ago.
Speaker 6: They asked us to, you know, former guys, come back
Speaker 6: and talk to the players about this particular.
Speaker 3: Game, you know.
Speaker 6: And the thing that I tell them told them at
Speaker 6: that time, and I probably said the same thing today.
Speaker 3: My thing is.
Speaker 6: Create your moment and create your last memory of something,
Speaker 6: and let.
Speaker 3: It be impactful. You have to let it be impactful.
Speaker 6: But this is your last game you can play either
Speaker 6: senior you can be the last game you played or
Speaker 6: underclass and in the last game.
Speaker 3: You can play this year.
Speaker 6: So why not create something impactful that you can remember
Speaker 6: the rest of your life, the rest of your life,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 3: And I was fortunate enough.
Speaker 6: To be in situations where, of course we won the game,
Speaker 6: but there was plays that I was a part of
Speaker 6: that had some kind of impact to allow us to
Speaker 6: win the game.
Speaker 3: So if you.
Speaker 6: Put yourself in that situation as a player, and collectively
Speaker 6: all of them play that way, the outcome will come
Speaker 6: our way. We should win this game, and that'll be
Speaker 6: your lasting memory of this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, no, good, good answer for both of you.
Speaker 2: One more time, one more question. You guys are a
Speaker 2: businessmen in the business, in the community, you know, outstanding
Speaker 2: guys who they asked for, you guys to do a lot.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they do it. I'm just assuming this the
Speaker 2: u of a you guys, I don't know if you
Speaker 2: were there for the DESIRET meeting maybe three four months
Speaker 2: ago up in the sands stub right. I find it.
Speaker 2: I don't have the money to do it, and they're
Speaker 2: not asking me. But when they're losing like this and
Speaker 2: you're giving money already, how difficult is it to reach
Speaker 2: back in the pocket and do it again when you
Speaker 2: saw no return or little return.
Speaker 7: Well, for me, the business sides, we don't go away
Speaker 7: or we commit on the business side with the university,
Speaker 7: I think it might be hard for me on the
Speaker 7: nil side. I haven't really dabbled in that very much,
Speaker 7: but I think that would be a hard thing because
Speaker 7: of the of the confusion and the uncertainty of the portal.
Speaker 7: I think that's something that unfortunately everybody's got to be pondering,
Speaker 7: like how that is not going to work. But we
Speaker 7: know there's changes coming. It's just going to be a
Speaker 7: rugby road till then. Yeah, yeah, what about you Lamont?
Speaker 6: Well, Well, I think those change, those changes basically gonna,
Speaker 6: you know, allow it to create its own path.
Speaker 3: You know in my head it's gonna create its own path.
Speaker 6: But again, you know, my thing is this is I
Speaker 6: to even tell these you know that the people that's
Speaker 6: over there, these directors or whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 6: these ads are trying to come to you, to get
Speaker 6: you to support this thing.
Speaker 3: First and foremost, you don't understand who your audience is.
Speaker 6: Get to know your audience, Okay, get to know Tucson
Speaker 6: is a small town.
Speaker 3: Okay, twu Son is a very small town.
Speaker 6: So at least get to know those people who are
Speaker 6: in the in your only support in your town.
Speaker 3: It's a reciprocal thing.
Speaker 6: If you want somebody to give to you, you should
Speaker 6: be out there.
Speaker 3: Giving back in one force, passion another. Now I'm a
Speaker 3: double ed sword here.
Speaker 6: I flipped the coin because I'm a formal player, and
Speaker 6: I also give back to the community here. Now, the
Speaker 6: formal player in me is the reason why I step
Speaker 6: up more than anything else, because the fact is that
Speaker 6: I see those kids of need, and I was one
Speaker 6: of those kids of need, and so I thank me
Speaker 6: giving back to the kids on that aspect, and I
Speaker 6: say the kids, not the university. And that's that's the
Speaker 6: end of it, because I know kids still have a need.
Speaker 6: And so that that formal player in me step up
Speaker 6: and think that way as a business man. And I
Speaker 6: want to and I do as much as I can do.
Speaker 6: You know that I'm capable of doing in this community.
Speaker 6: And and but my thing is just appreciate what little
Speaker 6: bit they give you, to what big amount they give you,
Speaker 6: show their appreciation and reciprocate.
Speaker 2: Right right, No good answer, no good answer, Hey lemon,
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Speaker 6: Yeah right, bear down, all right, Ray, Hey Ray, give
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Speaker 3: I'll be up there.
Speaker 4: You need too, Bro, I got you, all right.
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Speaker 7: of them. That's more like a circuit.
Speaker 2: You probably you probably think about that stuff all the time.
Speaker 2: You probably overthink things.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well I have to, yeah, otherwise you can't be man.
Speaker 7: You have to be maniced to be in this.
Speaker 2: Business right right, and and patient too, and and crazy
Speaker 2: and crazy for sure, because it's it ain't easy, especially
Speaker 2: restaurant pisiness.
Speaker 4: It's twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so so I'm sure you talking to you
Speaker 2: a little over fifty. You never would have ever thought,
Speaker 2: I know, I would have never ever thought the kids
Speaker 2: are making what they're making, especially how they're making it.
Speaker 2: Name m is like this, I get it, I get it. Okay,
Speaker 2: you're doing this commercial for this, for this, but not
Speaker 2: pay to play pretty much, right right? You know, flipping schools.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you saw the the party guy to you
Speaker 2: now he's going and who knows for how much. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it ain't partly cheap either.
Speaker 4: Some of the folks in this country.
Speaker 7: A million bucks is no big deal to pay to
Speaker 7: have your alma mater get something that you want, so
Speaker 7: right right, I mean, look at the videos of Texas
Speaker 7: that are on social media. Lamborghinis, Lamborghini College. I mean
Speaker 7: it's just crazy.
Speaker 2: I don't know. We talked about this yesterday and then
Speaker 2: I got a call here. Let's see if we get it. Hello,
Speaker 2: you're on the air and I on the ball.
Speaker 13: There.
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Speaker 11: I just wanted to mention I called up to try
Speaker 11: to get a couple of tickets.
Speaker 6: For myself and my grandsons to go to the game.
Speaker 3: Holy cow, that's out there are one hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty dollars tickets.
Speaker 6: There are some available on the Noseblade, but they're single tickets.
Speaker 6: Who's buying them all? Asu fans?
Speaker 3: No question, no question.
Speaker 6: I just I just figured it was such a dismal showing.
Speaker 3: They'd be giving them away. No, boy, is I wrong?
Speaker 2: No? In fact, I called one of our buddies party
Speaker 2: Righty knows who he is, and I asked, Hey, do
Speaker 2: you got a couple for me for this weekend? He says, no,
Speaker 2: My Phoenix people have already taken him up. So I've
Speaker 2: gotten No, it's going to be sixty forty, if not
Speaker 2: fifty to fifty in that stadium.
Speaker 3: I agree, I agree. So any chance of any chance
Speaker 3: of upset?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. In your heart of hearts, who
Speaker 2: is this? I think you've called it for?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 7: My name is Jill, you so and Ray?
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, But in your heart of hearts,
Speaker 2: I think that Arizona still has some talent there to
Speaker 2: play hard for these guys. And we we know we's
Speaker 2: cantaby with all this tough. I think there's some some
Speaker 2: of that in them left that they can kind of show,
Speaker 2: you know, show who they are, maybe for this one game.
Speaker 2: So yes, eight and a half point underdogs. I take
Speaker 2: the points.
Speaker 6: That maybe stars, yeah, go ahead, right, stars, Maybe the
Speaker 6: stars of all aligned for us this game and we'll
Speaker 6: actually have a game where we put it all together.
Speaker 2: Well you've been waiting for it, right, why not now? Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you, thanks for calling, Thanks for calling. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: not a shock. I mean to price is very high.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, look, tuisson sometimes has to wake up.
Speaker 7: We're a real market. Then prices are going to go up.
Speaker 7: You know, it is what it is, go everywhere.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you last week, last Friday, I
Speaker 2: assume those are your tickets, right, do you have tickets?
Speaker 4: A few of them in that building up? So you
Speaker 4: use yours any temptation to get rid of.
Speaker 2: Some although I heard that the ticket prices went down
Speaker 2: the day.
Speaker 4: Of yeah on the.
Speaker 7: Basketball Yeah, yeah, yeah, there was a temptation and we
Speaker 7: we thought we'd listed them for a minute.
Speaker 4: Then we took them back down.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I mean it's uh, you know, look, it's
Speaker 7: like anything, right, there's surge pricing there. You can go
Speaker 7: to a movie on Tuesday night and pay half. You
Speaker 7: go on a Friday night, you're paying double, right, So
Speaker 7: when it gets big and the lights are.
Speaker 4: Big, the tickets are going to go up. It's surely expensive.
Speaker 2: Sure, I wouldn't think that they would be that pricey
Speaker 2: this weekend. But if you asu, fans are going to
Speaker 2: come down and hey, you might be busy.
Speaker 7: Yeah we might, I hope. So you know, so with
Speaker 7: both the game, people hopefully go out to dinner afterwards,
Speaker 7: so yeah, yeah, and we'll be busy in concessions and
Speaker 7: people eating up.
Speaker 2: So that's good, right, No, no, no, A lot to
Speaker 2: play for for both sides. Because as Lamon said, they
Speaker 2: win this game and they're playing in the Big twelve tournament.
Speaker 7: Can I just say this and so this on the
Speaker 7: I'm on the record with you. I don't set the
Speaker 7: beer prices. I don't make I don't make money on
Speaker 7: the beer prices very much. That goes to the concession
Speaker 7: partner of the university. I only sell food. I'm more
Speaker 7: of a a more of a beer mule if anything,
Speaker 7: because I don't really make a lot of money on them.
Speaker 2: So I know I saw you last at the it
Speaker 2: was already before the season started, right Yeah for the food,
Speaker 2: the new food, Yeah, and desirely raved about some of
Speaker 2: the things, right, is that special?
Speaker 4: Food for the for the stadium ers. It's just you.
Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, I mean, we we do things because
Speaker 7: of the portability and the and the facility, right because
Speaker 7: we're not working in in really sophisticated kitchens.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Uh, you know a lot of the university's outlets are older,
Speaker 7: so we have to I mean, we're outfitted for that
Speaker 7: because we have a model where we have kitchens that
Speaker 7: can support that. But yeah, I mean there's there's no
Speaker 7: doubt that we're we're kind of in a mash kitchen
Speaker 7: really like a mash unit of food.
Speaker 4: Every every game. So it's difficult.
Speaker 7: We have a good team that I'm glad they were
Speaker 7: they execute, uh, but we have to make food that
Speaker 7: that's capable to.
Speaker 4: Be done in that environment and for speed and for value.
Speaker 2: Quick yeah, quick quick comvalue.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So some of the stuff that you had out there
Speaker 2: were very good, the Charles and the Yeah, I can't
Speaker 2: I can't remember.
Speaker 7: It's been so long and we've had you know, we've
Speaker 7: had not just jumping sports, but we've got a really
Speaker 7: good uh some good success with women's basketball lately. For
Speaker 7: a long time, you know, people didn't it was not
Speaker 7: something I've idea has done an amazing job. And that
Speaker 7: fan base seems to go there and actually enjoy a
Speaker 7: night out and they're sure they're eating and they're enjoying basketball.
Speaker 4: Totally different fan base, totally crazier base. Yeah, and and
Speaker 4: they're spending money. I love them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love the basketball. And again, who would have thought.
Speaker 2: I don't know, eight years ago, I was. I was like,
Speaker 2: I've been here a long time, you know that. And
Speaker 2: they were doing so well in the in the n
Speaker 2: I T And I'm thinking they have ten thousand people
Speaker 2: in this arena. I would have never ever ever thought that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a year or two later, they're playing in the final
Speaker 2: four and for a national job. She never ever would
Speaker 2: have thought.
Speaker 7: That idea is fantastic. I think she's such a great
Speaker 7: spokesperson for our community in our school.
Speaker 2: She is because she cares that she may care a
Speaker 2: little too much.
Speaker 7: But you got to have that, you know, without the passion,
Speaker 7: without question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, how many times have you seen that passion? Wise?
Speaker 4: Loot was here.
Speaker 2: He did it in a subtle, authoritative way, if that
Speaker 2: makes any sense.
Speaker 7: Oh, if you you know, I didn't know Luke very well,
Speaker 7: but why I didn't know one thing he was a
Speaker 7: shark of a person. He had such a presence about
Speaker 7: him and he knew it too. Oh yeah, he knew it.
Speaker 7: He cleared a room with just a look. Yeah, he
Speaker 7: was John Waynis type of a personality, you know, where
Speaker 7: you could just come in and sure he can set
Speaker 7: the tone pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because once he comes in you, yeah, you're thinking, oh,
Speaker 2: everyone's thinking that's well.
Speaker 7: The dude ever had a wrinkle on him, right, I
Speaker 7: mean he always looked like a million bucks and more.
Speaker 7: Now he'd be worth a billion bucks, I guess. So, yeah,
Speaker 7: he was impressed. And Adiya has that, she's polished, she's
Speaker 7: got she's got a great presence about her. Tommy has
Speaker 7: it in a different way. Tommy and then me. And
Speaker 7: let me tell you we we work with these these folks,
Speaker 7: right like, we go in and we cater in their
Speaker 7: homes and we deal with Tommy and his wife are
Speaker 7: a class act like like maybe no other we've ever
Speaker 7: dealt with. They are amazing to work with. They're very,
Speaker 7: very humble, they're very considered of the people that you know,
Speaker 7: I mean, look, we're in the service industry. We don't
Speaker 7: always get treat it the best.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: We used to people who you know, kind of snap
Speaker 7: fingers and point point their way at us and not
Speaker 7: that family.
Speaker 4: They're very, very congenial and they're very respectful people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's a different dude. He's just a dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah to me, different than most of the coaches we've had.
Speaker 2: He's not Sean obviously, but he's just the dude who
Speaker 2: just trying to do well. You don't have a.
Speaker 7: Beer with you, But I never saw him once there
Speaker 7: you go, that's the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and they and they say and that you
Speaker 2: know the people out there, and I don't know much
Speaker 2: about it because I haven't been to a press coverage year,
Speaker 2: but only a couple of games. Brennan's kind of the
Speaker 2: same way for strange reasons. He's not very he doesn't
Speaker 2: have a big personality. Uh.
Speaker 7: His wife is very congenial, very friendly. He seems like
Speaker 7: a friendly enough guy and a lot of interchange their
Speaker 7: stuff with him. I think he's probably the will overwhelmed
Speaker 7: jump into a fire, So I can't say that I've
Speaker 7: had a you know, it's I hope to see what
Speaker 7: he's like in a year when he gets his footing
Speaker 7: and grounded here, Like Lemon said, it's a small town,
Speaker 7: and I think he's learning how to how to navigate
Speaker 7: his way through that, right.
Speaker 2: No, And it's a perfect college town. In fact, Kobe,
Speaker 2: he's from New York right long ally uh And one
Speaker 2: of the reasons you came here was because m M.
Speaker 4: The weather in the campus is beautiful.
Speaker 7: In Mexican food, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, ul Charle is great. It's whenever my parents come,
Speaker 4: we always go there.
Speaker 7: Tell your parents will send the credit card, we'll take
Speaker 7: We'll take care of you.
Speaker 2: No, And it's it's it's a typical college town. I mean,
Speaker 2: they live and die with U of a and when
Speaker 2: they lose, they live and die with U of A.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I think it's I said, it's like jokingly,
Speaker 7: I was like, we need to double down on the
Speaker 7: bear down right now because it we're hurting, you know,
Speaker 7: And I.
Speaker 2: Think, what do you mean by that?
Speaker 4: What do you mean by you know, like people say
Speaker 4: bear down?
Speaker 7: I mean and and then you know, there was some
Speaker 7: jokes about it on those cans on the Big twelve
Speaker 7: pages about why do they say bear down when they're
Speaker 7: wowts and just you know, the silly banter that on
Speaker 7: those on those social media threads. But I think, you know,
Speaker 7: to know what Beardown really means to this community, that
Speaker 7: folks like Lamont, the people that have fought for that school,
Speaker 7: the history, the land that it sits on, the value
Speaker 7: that it has to the entire community of the indigenous community.
Speaker 7: Like double down the bear down't mean like get extra
Speaker 7: passionate right now. You know, it's easy to have stirred
Speaker 7: when you're winning. You know that's the easiest time. Now
Speaker 7: you got to double down on it.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, well look at Friday. I mean, come on,
Speaker 2: I can't remember a time when it was that crazy
Speaker 2: in that arena. Yeah, and we saw it. We saw
Speaker 2: for years how crazy you could get, even you know,
Speaker 2: as crazy as now I'm a white hair guy, you're
Speaker 2: a white hair guy, but we are not quite here.
Speaker 2: Back in the day, they can get bunkers, and it
Speaker 2: got bunkers for a while until you know, the game
Speaker 2: was pretty much. So that's how it's going to have
Speaker 2: to be the rest of the year. I agree, And
Speaker 2: I think it will be for the big games, and
Speaker 2: I think, but we think we need to do it
Speaker 2: for all the sports.
Speaker 7: You know, you do, I mean, you know, we had
Speaker 7: what was it, the triathlon team out there that won
Speaker 7: the nowtional championship.
Speaker 4: Hey, double down on the bear down.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: I say double down kind of jokingly because you know,
Speaker 7: a card player, when I've got some free time, and
Speaker 7: whether you have you know, an ace up or you've
Speaker 7: got a you know, a six up, there's an opportunity
Speaker 7: whether you've got a losing hand or not, to double
Speaker 7: down and turn it around. I think we need to
Speaker 7: double down right now as a community and support the
Speaker 7: university and and our Wildcat sports teams A Z E
Speaker 7: and up and down, the up and down the chart
Speaker 7: of what they are, baseball, basketball, softball, any of them
Speaker 7: out there. There's a lot of youth in this town
Speaker 7: that would would be great to see them at games.
Speaker 7: It know, it'd be great to take some kids out
Speaker 7: to the game more. I like to see more families
Speaker 7: and more children at games versus in front of a
Speaker 7: computer screen playing the latest game or something that we
Speaker 7: end up throwing away in a shed later on.
Speaker 2: You trying to solve the world's problems right now, because
Speaker 2: that's pretty much everywhere us say you you also pay
Speaker 2: have a relationship with Chip, do you?
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And he's another guy who's a lot like I'm assuming
Speaker 2: now because I don't spend a lot of time with
Speaker 2: the baseball a lot like Tommy Another just dude.
Speaker 4: Yeah he's a baseball player.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, And he's a he really cares about this town.
Speaker 4: He cares about the program.
Speaker 7: Another one who's married to a gem of a person
Speaker 7: who her family's committed to the to the team. And
Speaker 7: I love Trip Couch. I love his you know, I
Speaker 7: love his director. A lot of the players, a lot
Speaker 7: of the kids are just they're just good dudes. And
Speaker 7: and uh, you know, there's a lot of youth sports
Speaker 7: stuff that they do. They've got he's got his camps
Speaker 7: that he runs. I think, I think that's an unknown
Speaker 7: little secret. Look, it's in a city facility at High Corbett.
Speaker 7: I grew up one of High Corbett. I miss spring training,
Speaker 7: but I love that it keeps that part viable, it
Speaker 7: keeps it open. I'm a big proponent of baseball as
Speaker 7: a sport for Tucson because of the cultural relevance to
Speaker 7: the Hispanic market that's here, and and our proximity to Mexico,
Speaker 7: which has a strong baseball a love for baseball with
Speaker 7: Mexican Baseball Fiesta, Mexican teams there, you know, believe it
Speaker 7: or not, the success and the energy that Trip had
Speaker 7: and Chip rather Chip and Trip had with you of
Speaker 7: a baseball led us into a successful result getting World
Speaker 7: by Baseball class back here, you know, Mike lead us
Speaker 7: into some other opportunities for other sports, to other the
Speaker 7: baseball teams to come here from Mexico other parts.
Speaker 4: Of the world.
Speaker 7: We've got the the Denos here, you know, doing their
Speaker 7: spring training here. So I think it's something that I
Speaker 7: believe that baseball is still really relevant, and I think
Speaker 7: it's really relevant for Tucson and I like to see
Speaker 7: us focus on it because a day at the ballpark
Speaker 7: in this market is beautiful.
Speaker 2: Sure, and we've had it for forever until we didn't
Speaker 2: have it right and then you say, what the hell happened?
Speaker 4: It hurt? Yeah, it hurt them leaving hurt.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Did you have anything to do with the w World
Speaker 4: Baseball Cast. Yeah, I'm very involved with that.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's a it's a fantastic get. We'll see
Speaker 2: what comes of it. You know, Mike doing his Mexican
Speaker 2: Baseball League.
Speaker 7: Stuff too, Mike, Mike's amazing Francisco is partner. Uh you know, Uh,
Speaker 7: Blake eager and Edgard Soto for the you know, the
Speaker 7: safs through of the group that's just a Southern aero
Speaker 7: sports group that is that is out there driving the narrative.
Speaker 7: The new leadership at Kino. Sarah Horvath, she's she's phenomenal.
Speaker 7: She's you know, a smart move by by the board
Speaker 7: of supervisors with jan and and Carmine to put her
Speaker 7: in that position because there's hospitality again a Quino, and
Speaker 7: there's a mindset let's let's let's put people in seats
Speaker 7: and that's what we need everywhere in Tucson.
Speaker 2: Okay, with that, we're gonna take the break, come back
Speaker 2: on you the side. Maybe we'll have some breaking news
Speaker 2: a little by Kobe here and then talk more about sports.
Speaker 7: We're also gonna have your guy, yeah, eventually from the
Speaker 7: Arizona Ble.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's go