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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
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Speaker 2: we have Ray with breaking news.
Speaker 1: This is Eye on the Ball, Breaking news on Fox
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Speaker 3: Right, great Friday, Great Friday. It feels good. End of
Speaker 3: the week, does feel good?
Speaker 4: Man, starting off with some track in field news right now.
Speaker 3: This is a tough name.
Speaker 4: Jathaiah Mohammad finished second in the women's pull vault at
Speaker 4: the Under twenty Championship with a height of four zero
Speaker 4: point thirty meters.
Speaker 5: From a ran. Yes. Yeah, we had Fred Harvey on yesterday.
Speaker 2: He tweeted that I think yesterday, yeah, saying congratulations. She
Speaker 2: may be under him in terms of you know, summer
Speaker 2: programs or whatever she coming back to UA. Do we
Speaker 2: know she says softball right or what? What did you say?
Speaker 4: She's nineteen, so yeah, she's yeah, she's under twenty. It
Speaker 4: doesn't say if she's coming back, but the the social
Speaker 4: media it's got.
Speaker 5: Going into the draft, well, yeah, who knows.
Speaker 4: Anymore, right, Yeah, another kind of housekeeping stuff.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: A former Arizona outfielder Kaya Altemeyer is transferring to Texas,
Speaker 4: had a great year softball. Yes, there's a long list
Speaker 4: of them. Yeah, there's a few. There's also a few
Speaker 4: signings as well. I don't know, I don't know if
Speaker 4: you guys have talked about it before already, but Janee Barry,
Speaker 4: Serenity Trice, Addison Duke and tell Tela Jennings.
Speaker 3: The I guess we're posting on the roster this week.
Speaker 4: There was also a bunch of kind of signings from
Speaker 4: people that had already committed, but just like formerly, like
Speaker 4: to to come to a yes, to.
Speaker 5: Come to a there's a lot of comings and goings
Speaker 5: over there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's crazy, isn't I think about to hear about
Speaker 6: signings for college, college and sports?
Speaker 3: Right? No, And it was interesting too. I was watching.
Speaker 4: The Pat McFee show had the interview with Calipari yesterday
Speaker 4: and he he got asked with like what he thinks
Speaker 4: worse is n I l or or the transferportal? He
Speaker 4: says the transferportal. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel like
Speaker 4: that's true too, because it's like, I mean.
Speaker 2: Well, Jay, You've been a long time fan, and I
Speaker 2: talked to you about this long time. You go because
Speaker 2: you cheer for the school, right, not so much the player,
Speaker 2: although the players involved.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you you even though you were cheering for
Speaker 6: the school, you still wanted you cheered for the players
Speaker 6: because you got to know them well.
Speaker 3: And you don't see him long enough anymore.
Speaker 5: Right right, right back in the day, right right, you
Speaker 5: know they're.
Speaker 6: Not here long enough, you know, I mean for a
Speaker 6: long time, you know, with the with the basketball team
Speaker 6: in particular, you know all the one and Doune, you
Speaker 6: don't even feel like like, you know, DeAndre and Josh Green.
Speaker 6: You know, all those guys that came through during that
Speaker 6: period of time with Sean Miller, Who the hell are they?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you wouldn't acquish you on them, wouldn't.
Speaker 6: And there wasn't a single one of those guys that
Speaker 6: you thought was in it for Arizona, right, Yeah. They
Speaker 6: were here to get theirs and and and and you know,
Speaker 6: get themselves into the draft and get the hell out,
Speaker 6: you know, all the way back to guys like Jared
Speaker 6: Bayless and you know all those.
Speaker 3: Kinds of guys and.
Speaker 6: Uh, you know, and and so that that part of
Speaker 6: it sucks, but it is what it is now, and
Speaker 6: so you have to That's why I feel like, you know,
Speaker 6: since we don't have a pro team, you know, in
Speaker 6: tisson To to cheer for, I'll just cheer for Arizona
Speaker 6: and I want Arizona to win. And whoever the guys
Speaker 6: are this particular year, then that's great. And then the
Speaker 6: guys who do stick around, you kind of get a
Speaker 6: little more of a you know, you like them more.
Speaker 6: You know, the no Fafida who was stuck around and
Speaker 6: other guys who stay you gay, Okay, now that guy
Speaker 6: got kind of a special place you know for that guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you look at even with Seawn's guys. Not to
Speaker 2: hit hit on this, but how many come back? How
Speaker 2: many do we know come back?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, because you know exactly.
Speaker 2: So Ray here TJ may be the most endearing guy
Speaker 2: of all of them under Sean right, and he was here,
Speaker 2: he comes around and anybody else, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know, you know, all the other guys that come
Speaker 3: back are all guys from the loot year.
Speaker 6: Yeah right, I mean, you know, we don't see Nick Johnson,
Speaker 6: we don't see DeAndre, and we don't see you know,
Speaker 6: and Josh Green's and those guys, you know, they they
Speaker 6: don't come back here.
Speaker 3: Uh you know the guy.
Speaker 6: Now understand that the guys who are coming back more
Speaker 6: often are guys who are out of basketball now. The
Speaker 6: Richard Jefferson Channing Fry, you know, those guys who they're
Speaker 6: not busy with basketball anymore.
Speaker 5: But there aren't too many and Shawn's guys that are
Speaker 5: yeah really or not.
Speaker 6: So it's you know, it's it's everybody just has to
Speaker 6: adjust how they take in their sports, right I did
Speaker 6: did did you wonder how to call me today about this?
Speaker 6: That he said that the most interesting rivalry that's going
Speaker 6: to really tell how nil and revenue sharing and all
Speaker 6: that stuff is the impacting things will be the Arizona
Speaker 6: Asu rivalry because of how they're made up. Because you
Speaker 6: need to read the story and it's hard for me
Speaker 6: to explain in a short period of time, but it's basically,
Speaker 6: how you got a su sitting in a metropolitan, big
Speaker 6: metropolitan area, got all these pro teams around it, and
Speaker 6: how things are going to go for them, Where are
Speaker 6: the money, where money is going to get spent on them?
Speaker 6: Then you got Arizona who doesn't have any of that,
Speaker 6: but yet they're not in a big giant you know,
Speaker 6: where there's a bunch of corporate headquarters and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Where is the money going to come for them?
Speaker 6: And to watch how these two teams evolve, or these
Speaker 6: two programs evolve in this era of revenue sharing, nil
Speaker 6: transfer portal and all the other you know, all the
Speaker 6: the relocate realignment and stuff. Watching how those two programs
Speaker 6: survive and come out of this and the contrast between
Speaker 6: the two, it's gonna be real agree. I totally agree,
Speaker 6: because he said, like USC and u c l A,
Speaker 6: they're kind of the same thing, right you know, uh so,
Speaker 6: just yeah, Oregon or Oregon and Oregon State aren't in
Speaker 6: the same conference anymore, neither of Washington Washington State, and
Speaker 6: and then you know they talk about a lot of
Speaker 6: these things. But Arizona and a s U they're in
Speaker 6: the same conference, kind of playing for the same things,
Speaker 6: but they have very different makeups of their program.
Speaker 2: Well, we talked about this when this first came out, Jay,
Speaker 2: if you remember, would you have rather? Would you rather
Speaker 2: be a student athlete at a college town where people
Speaker 2: love you and jury or go to a big city
Speaker 2: where probably no one even cares, but it's a bigger
Speaker 2: city with more, more.
Speaker 3: With more.
Speaker 6: So there's a you know that's that's ultimately you know
Speaker 6: things because you know he's talking about how what players
Speaker 6: are going to go play at a s U and
Speaker 6: players can go play at Arizona.
Speaker 3: You know, it's very a really interesting article. You need
Speaker 3: to go look at it. Well, that sounds like an
Speaker 3: interesting one. It is, it is, it was.
Speaker 6: It was in the Star, you know, because his Willner's
Speaker 6: columns in the Star. I think I saw yesterday. Okay,
Speaker 6: big story of last night. Obviously, the Pacers tied up
Speaker 6: the series against the Thunder three to three.
Speaker 3: Game seven on Sunday. It's gonna be a good one.
Speaker 2: I was an ass kicking last night. Yeah yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't think. Okay, she carried to be there. It's tough
Speaker 2: to win on the road. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 6: Man, you can't you can't take a chance though that.
Speaker 6: You know, you got to show up. Man, you can't
Speaker 6: take a chance that. Well, we'll get him at home.
Speaker 2: I didn't watch the game, you like, never know, you go,
Speaker 2: why so how did Halliburton play Halliburton?
Speaker 3: He did? I did pretty good. I saw pieces or
Speaker 3: he seemed like he was playing pretty well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he I think they were trying to
Speaker 4: take care of him a little bit. TJ actually played
Speaker 4: a minute more than him, So I think.
Speaker 2: Well, if there's a dude who's made a lot of
Speaker 2: he's already signed the contract, but notoriety is TJ.
Speaker 3: He said some sort of record. Did you see that?
Speaker 6: All time all time combined points, assists and off the bench.
Speaker 6: I think off the bench rebounds, off the bench in
Speaker 6: a final series.
Speaker 2: Little old TJ sean, do you think he'll play in
Speaker 2: the pros? Yeah, I think he's got to get in
Speaker 2: the world thinking, what the hell are you thinking? He's
Speaker 2: been ten years?
Speaker 3: Yeah, ye, no, And it's yeah, I mean, it was
Speaker 3: a good game.
Speaker 4: And I think one of the biggest things that go ahead, no, please,
Speaker 4: one of the biggest.
Speaker 3: Things that really just like sticks out. That stuck out
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 4: It was like the bench whenever whenever the Pacers win,
Speaker 4: it's usually the bench has a.
Speaker 5: Ya and he's in Mathrine and and somebody.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna ask you, I'm gonna put you on
Speaker 2: the spots and all because last year we were talking
Speaker 2: about Caleb right and and and Mathine Mathrine, and you
Speaker 2: went with Caleb and if you remember this, and I
Speaker 2: was saying, what the hell you're gonna pick Caleb Love
Speaker 2: over over Mathern better?
Speaker 5: So do you think what do you think his situation is? Now?
Speaker 5: No one has him on the list?
Speaker 2: I asked him, but Sewan and Sean got Tommy and
Speaker 2: he got on me for asking the question.
Speaker 5: Whatever, I don't see anybody. I don't see it.
Speaker 2: He'll be He'll be playing professionally somewhere. I just don't
Speaker 2: see him.
Speaker 6: Problem with with Caleb is that there's a lot of
Speaker 6: guys like him right, size wise, uh, consistent, more consistent,
Speaker 6: why you know, shooting wise, there's a lot, there's a
Speaker 6: lot of Caleb loves Ben. Ben Mathern's got something different, right,
Speaker 6: He's you know, there's something different about him, and I
Speaker 6: don't know what it is.
Speaker 3: And you know, if you ask me.
Speaker 6: Who's no doubt Ben Matherings better?
Speaker 3: Better, better? Prouh.
Speaker 6: Well, I was trying to show Caleb some love, man,
Speaker 6: but you know, I hate you said, and I hope
Speaker 6: he's not listening.
Speaker 3: Caleb loves are a diamond dozen yeah, right? And he
Speaker 3: was your domina, he wasn't.
Speaker 6: He for Caleb Love to really have appeal in the NBA.
Speaker 6: He's got to be an extraordinary shooter. And he's not
Speaker 6: an extraordinary shooter. He extraordinarily shoots a lot, but he's
Speaker 6: not a he's not an extraordinary shooter. He's not a
Speaker 6: forty five to fifty you know, long range shooter. And and uh,
Speaker 6: that's what he for, for who he is and what
Speaker 6: he the other things that he brings to the table.
Speaker 6: He needs to be an extraordinary shooter and he, unfortunately
Speaker 6: is not. He can make he can make a living
Speaker 6: at pro basketball.
Speaker 3: But it's unlikely that he'll make that living in the NBA.
Speaker 5: Unfortunate, and who knows, maybe he'll surprise.
Speaker 6: And well again you know who was thought that, TJ McConnell.
Speaker 6: But what what TJ McConnell had. And then you know,
Speaker 6: Caleb had a good work ethic, it seemed like. But
Speaker 6: but TJ. McConnell was a bulldog, all right. He wasn't
Speaker 6: going to let anybody tell him he wasn't good.
Speaker 2: He was the driving force of those tests. All those
Speaker 2: teams have got the lea he was.
Speaker 3: He was.
Speaker 6: I still remember him wanting to beat the hell out
Speaker 6: of Stanley Johnson on the court at the Maui Classic.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it was, but his turn.
Speaker 6: Wasn't haw wife, And then he's yelling at Stanley Johnson
Speaker 6: because he's being a turn.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, you saw the story that Doug Heller wrote, you know,
Speaker 2: it was a fantastic story about when when t J
Speaker 2: came into the ring of butter and he and this
Speaker 2: is the type of leader he was. Stanley was the
Speaker 2: freshman blah blah blahah and he saw him flor.
Speaker 5: You can't do this. You're not going to do this
Speaker 5: to this team.
Speaker 2: You're not going to be a jerk and become whatever
Speaker 2: we know with your future.
Speaker 5: But don't you It's not.
Speaker 3: Going to do it here. And that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: The dude you need.
Speaker 6: It's an intangible that that TJ has that comes out
Speaker 6: every time he steps on the court, right right, he's
Speaker 6: out there and even though he's like he's the shortest,
Speaker 6: he's the whitest, he can't jump, he can't he is
Speaker 6: in charge. But they respect that when he's out there,
Speaker 6: and the guys respect that.
Speaker 2: And that's where they play hard for he's in charge.
Speaker 2: Steve Kerr, come on there, you go okay, yeah, keeping
Speaker 2: it moving. Uh, Diamondbacks are starting a series against the Rockies.
Speaker 3: Diamondbacks in Colorado. Yes, uh, back at five hundred. Zach
Speaker 3: Gallon's pitching the night. That's that's promising. Rocky's been looking
Speaker 3: good though.
Speaker 5: What's up mean?
Speaker 4: It means that they won the almost the twenty.
Speaker 3: Wins Man.
Speaker 2: Days when I take a shower and I look, okay,
Speaker 2: that's right, and that's just for your comparatively.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you look what you dressed up today? Shower?
Speaker 4: He well that you know, their manager said, don't let
Speaker 4: him get hot, so watch out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, keeping it going.
Speaker 4: Baseball College World Series Finals tomorrow starts tomorrow for should
Speaker 4: be four Mountain time or local time. Obviously Coastal Carolina
Speaker 4: l is here. It's gonna be Uh, it's gonna be good.
Speaker 4: And I'm excited. That's gonna be a good game or series.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it should be.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Suspensions also came out for the kind of scuff up
Speaker 4: between the Padres and the Dodgers. On the Padres pitcher
Speaker 4: who Drilledo Tawny, Robert Suarez received a three game suspension.
Speaker 3: He's trying to appeal.
Speaker 6: That, and I'll tell you what at least they didn't
Speaker 6: send him to the minors, so he should be happy
Speaker 6: that the three game suspension.
Speaker 4: Right, right, And then both both managers, Mike Schildt and
Speaker 4: Dave Roberts have received a one game suspension for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Speaker 6: I'd love to see him throw And that just would
Speaker 6: have been so much fun. Too old guys out there
Speaker 6: just just going at it. That would have been so
Speaker 6: much fun. We would have talked about that for Yeah.
Speaker 6: You know, my wife got home last night, so we're
Speaker 6: watching the game and she goes, what's he doing.
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts. I'm like, he's he's fighting. He's too old.
Speaker 3: Come on, yeah, I said, come on, she's good. Come on,
Speaker 3: I go back here. I'm like, yeah, this is great,
Speaker 3: this is good stuff.
Speaker 4: Wrapping it up for today, Wisconsin sues a sman Miami
Speaker 4: for tampering with a football transfer.
Speaker 3: A lawsuit.
Speaker 2: Yes, and they think that's going to continue to happen.
Speaker 2: I mean last week softball they were talking about just
Speaker 2: how they can deal with the money stop, but they
Speaker 2: can't deal with just don't tamper. And it's wink wink,
Speaker 2: you know, because everyone's.
Speaker 6: Everyone doesn't apparently, I mean, you're gonna tell me Wisconsin
Speaker 6: doesn't ever tamper with anybody, so it.
Speaker 2: Just affected them because they didn't. But they didn't allow
Speaker 2: him to get into the portal. They said, no, you can't.
Speaker 2: So he just quit school and decided to get transferred.
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, interesting stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess if we want to talk about this
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all they says it, ohs, this is I
Speaker 1: on the ball with Steve Rivera on Box sportsporteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Why in the Ball General Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in today Jay Gonzalez
Speaker 2: and I've got ready behind the scene here now on
Speaker 2: the phone, we have Q Baker from the Sugar Skulls. Q.
Speaker 5: How you doing?
Speaker 14: I'm good man.
Speaker 5: How are you? We're doing fine. That's a cool first name.
Speaker 5: Thank you, by the way, Hey, and welcome back, welcome
Speaker 5: home kind of right. You're from Mesa? I am yeah,
Speaker 5: how's it?
Speaker 3: And Tucson.
Speaker 15: It's it's different. It's a little ways from home, but
Speaker 15: I'm glad. I'm enjoying my time out here.
Speaker 3: So cute.
Speaker 6: Tell us a little bit about what for tellus about
Speaker 6: yourself and how you how you you know, kind of
Speaker 6: your path to the Sugar Skulls, What do you know?
Speaker 3: What have you been doing?
Speaker 6: Where'd you play? All those kinds of things. Would love
Speaker 6: to hear a little bit about your background.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 14: So this is uh, this is actually my first year
Speaker 14: with the Sugar Souls.
Speaker 3: This year.
Speaker 15: I've been actually been out of football for a little bit.
Speaker 15: I graduated almost two years ago now at this point,
Speaker 15: sitting in psychology up and an Au I was able
Speaker 15: to find uh someone to get picked up for the Rallers,
Speaker 15: and I started with the Rattlers for a bit at
Speaker 15: the beginning of the season, and I believe after like
Speaker 15: three or four games, I was sent to Tucson the
Speaker 15: week that we played.
Speaker 14: Them play out of seven and uh that was my
Speaker 14: first week, first week in Tucson.
Speaker 15: It's definitely been a little bit of a journey since then.
Speaker 2: Well, you must have been fantastically related when you guys
Speaker 2: beat them.
Speaker 5: You guys have beat them twice.
Speaker 3: Now, right, absolutely.
Speaker 15: I got some pictures from some of our great photographers
Speaker 15: and you.
Speaker 14: Could definitely see the motion of my face.
Speaker 6: Well, tell me, so, you said you want your ode
Speaker 6: of football for a while. What made you get back in.
Speaker 15: I just felt that I wasn't done with what I
Speaker 15: could do on the field. I played a Division III
Speaker 15: football for the first four years.
Speaker 3: Of my life.
Speaker 15: I transferred up to SCS my last and I personally
Speaker 15: just felt like I could have I could have did
Speaker 15: better for my time in college. But it's granted. Seeing
Speaker 15: how one of the things laid out, I just wanted
Speaker 15: to give myself the opportunity to prove that I could
Speaker 15: play at a higher level of football.
Speaker 5: Where did you go with D three?
Speaker 14: My first school at Central College and Iowa.
Speaker 2: Okay, so those four years and then and you how'd
Speaker 2: that go? Because they're kind of an up and coming program.
Speaker 2: I mean, you mentioned any you're.
Speaker 3: Gonna you're gonna say I know you're gonna say it.
Speaker 5: You're going to say it, and then you'll beat a
Speaker 5: resulta not too long ago.
Speaker 15: Absolutely, yeah, And he's definitely been a program that's been
Speaker 15: on the rise. They've had like a couple of issues
Speaker 15: in terms of like stats and some of the players recently,
Speaker 15: but in terms of like the last couple of years
Speaker 15: and even the last season, they did pretty well. So
Speaker 15: I'm glad to see and uh and and I'm hoping
Speaker 15: to see them continue to in the future.
Speaker 6: What what do you hope to find out about yourself
Speaker 6: playing for the Sugar Skulls. And I mean, I mean,
Speaker 6: obviously you'd like to have an opportunity to you know,
Speaker 6: to move up to a higher league or whatever.
Speaker 3: But what do you want to see happen here?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 3: What will what will make you happy that you that
Speaker 3: you came back to play?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 15: Making me happy with see this team go to the
Speaker 15: playoffs and continue with success that we've had, you know,
Speaker 15: like even kind of going from where we were at
Speaker 15: that point when we first played the Rattlers. We hadn't
Speaker 15: beat them at that time, and we had still been
Speaker 15: kind of seen as like the little brother to that team,
Speaker 15: is because we did have a lot of traded people
Speaker 15: from that team.
Speaker 14: So it's the fact that like we're starting to gain
Speaker 14: a respect and.
Speaker 15: And doing these uh, these large comebacks that a lot
Speaker 15: of people wouldn't be able to do themselves, or wouldn't
Speaker 15: even believe that believe they would do, or like see
Speaker 15: them coming. So like the fact that we're putting ourselves
Speaker 15: out there and showing that we're definitely a team that deserves.
Speaker 3: To be on the field.
Speaker 14: I'm just I definitely would like to see us go
Speaker 14: to the playoffs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no question, go ahead.
Speaker 4: So you know, just talking about the Rattlers, you guys,
Speaker 4: uh beat them on Saturday in triple ot what kind
Speaker 4: of you know, what's going through your mind? Like, you know,
Speaker 4: how much do you like rely on those like practice
Speaker 4: those like those practices before the season starts, you know,
Speaker 4: the camaraderie between your teammates to just kind of you know,
Speaker 4: band together and uh, you know, kind of will that one.
Speaker 15: Out, you know, and those moments when you're in triple
Speaker 15: overtime and the only thing you really can focus on
Speaker 15: yourself yourself at that point, and the biggest thing is
Speaker 15: like knowing that as a team we were able to
Speaker 15: collectively without really needing to say anything to each other
Speaker 15: through every overtime, like every every time we got to
Speaker 15: a different like opportunity where we needed to work together
Speaker 15: to overcome a hurdle to score. Those are those moments
Speaker 15: when you are worried that you need to say something
Speaker 15: to every single one of your teammates. But continuing like
Speaker 15: the Camarado, what we've had and just building with this
Speaker 15: team we've had the fact that we were able to
Speaker 15: continue to work without really spearing what the outcome was
Speaker 15: because we trusted in each other so much.
Speaker 2: So, just to let you know, Jay here was the
Speaker 2: former was the former president of these sugar schools a
Speaker 2: couple three years back work. Uh, let me say, if
Speaker 2: you beat Kevin one more time, they might cancel the season.
Speaker 3: Did you go to give him a big hug after
Speaker 3: you beat him again?
Speaker 15: You remember me, he had a big old grand.
Speaker 16: After I don't know that he would take the joke
Speaker 16: very well, you know, absolutely, so any surprises for you, K,
Speaker 16: You're playing your first season, you come from you your
Speaker 16: where you came from Division three and a U and
Speaker 16: then you're playing in this league.
Speaker 5: Any surprises to you, How cool it has it been, whatever.
Speaker 14: It has been.
Speaker 15: This is my first time playing center, and so I've
Speaker 15: had to transition to a new position.
Speaker 5: So just learning a.
Speaker 15: Different part of the game I didn't have before, and
Speaker 15: just my introduction to arena ball. Like I've always known
Speaker 15: about it, but I've never really paid too too much attention.
Speaker 14: The fact that, like there are so many people.
Speaker 15: That support it, like really across the country, and the
Speaker 15: fact that there are three teams in Arizona. It's like,
Speaker 15: it really is cool to see the sport thrive, and
Speaker 15: the fact that there's so many fans and people interested
Speaker 15: in the fact that there's so many communities that do
Speaker 15: get reached by it's very.
Speaker 6: Cool to be a part of How much of an
Speaker 6: adjustment was it for you, you know, from the outdoor
Speaker 6: game to the indoor game. Kind I always ask this
Speaker 6: of guys who are just you know, getting into it
Speaker 6: and trying to understand what is it really really different
Speaker 6: or is it basically the same game.
Speaker 15: It's a it's a different game, for sure. Everything is
Speaker 15: a lot quicker, I know for me, especially at center,
Speaker 15: I generally say, like with the outdoor game, you wouldn't
Speaker 15: deal with a zero tech too often unless you were
Speaker 15: dealing with like a certain kind of defense. But with
Speaker 15: the indoor game, you don't have as many landmen to
Speaker 15: rely on. Like I was a tackle while I play
Speaker 15: on the outdoor game, so I was used to being
Speaker 15: able to slow play the outside because of my space.
Speaker 15: I could run them outside or I could trust my
Speaker 15: guard if I had to go inside. But seeing that
Speaker 15: we don't have as much space, everything is a lot
Speaker 15: more quicker, and like you have to be on your
Speaker 15: game a lot more quicker.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no question, Do you like it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean do you like the differences? I guess
Speaker 3: the better question.
Speaker 14: I enjoy it?
Speaker 15: Yes, I do enjoy the differences that there that there
Speaker 15: is from outdoor football. I was kind of catching myself
Speaker 15: one time watching an Ah just of the fact that
Speaker 15: again it being so different, the fact that there are
Speaker 15: so many people that have like come together to watch
Speaker 15: a different version of the game that we all love
Speaker 15: it shows how much really everyone of the like truly
Speaker 15: does love football and supports football, especially being one of
Speaker 15: the states that doesn't have to me of the bigger
Speaker 15: or just college programs in general that we want to
Speaker 15: ways to get some football here.
Speaker 2: You must be about twenty three four if that right, yes,
Speaker 2: say twenty three twenty three. So what do you think
Speaker 2: if this is what you do, how long do you
Speaker 2: think you can do it?
Speaker 5: If you wanted to prove yourself.
Speaker 15: God given, I believe I could given my age and
Speaker 15: my status. Hopefully within these next couple of years, I
Speaker 15: can prove that I deserve to play on a bigger field,
Speaker 15: just kind of like I've had to prove myself and pilots.
Speaker 15: I didn't really start with any offers and I didn't
Speaker 15: really have too many people calling. So when I didn't
Speaker 15: have my opportunity, I just kind of put my head
Speaker 15: down and worked and showed that I deserve to play
Speaker 15: at at a higher stage. And I definitely believe I
Speaker 15: can do this if I play my cards right with
Speaker 15: this opportunity. So I believe hopefully with the next couple
Speaker 15: of years I can I can get that done. So
Speaker 15: before my body starts beating up.
Speaker 3: On me too.
Speaker 5: Bad Jane, that's yet. No, you have to think about
Speaker 5: that for sure.
Speaker 2: So what do you what do you what did you
Speaker 2: get you to in what do you hope to do
Speaker 2: beyond football?
Speaker 15: I got my degree in psychology, and before I had transferred,
Speaker 15: I had a minor and art. I definitely would like
Speaker 15: to pursue tattooing, and we're working in my hand. I'm
Speaker 15: kind of entrepreneuring my.
Speaker 14: Spare time.
Speaker 15: I have actually, funny enough, been trusted to tattoo a
Speaker 15: couple of my teammates. I've been growing my art, trying
Speaker 15: to grow myself as a person. I have an Instagram
Speaker 15: page dedicated to my tattoos if you wanted to check
Speaker 15: it out, and Q bears tattoos que Bears tattoos on
Speaker 15: Instagram and over my journey with that, I started that
Speaker 15: in college and just getting to the point where I
Speaker 15: am with that, I'm very satisfied and seeing my growth
Speaker 15: and almost in awesome times of some of the professions
Speaker 15: I've town that have been more mentally challenging and very
Speaker 15: time consuming, and just trying to do what I can.
Speaker 15: Like I said as a young twenty thre year old,
Speaker 15: to do everything I can while I'm here you know
Speaker 15: what I mean. I have a lot of passions in
Speaker 15: terms of probably coaching or teaching children, especially with kind
Speaker 15: of the disconnect we have with a lot of the
Speaker 15: older generation today.
Speaker 5: So given given.
Speaker 15: Some good opportunities, I definitely like to set myself up
Speaker 15: to either be some kind of guidance counselor a mentor
Speaker 15: and someone who could use art to help people in
Speaker 15: a therapy.
Speaker 14: Kind of way, people who can't really.
Speaker 15: Do things a certain way or the same way as
Speaker 15: everyone else can.
Speaker 4: So you know, talking about tattooing, and I'm a big
Speaker 4: I love getting tattooed, looking at like tattoo shows and
Speaker 4: stuff like that. You know, used to have a subscription
Speaker 4: to InCD. What do you what would you say like
Speaker 4: kind of spark that interest? Obviously your big art guy,
Speaker 4: but also how do you think that you know your mentor?
Speaker 4: You know, while you're trying to get into maybe a
Speaker 4: shop or something has like maybe influenced you on wanting
Speaker 4: to be a mentor too.
Speaker 3: Like you were just talking.
Speaker 15: About, I definitely pulled from a lot of the coaches
Speaker 15: and the mentoring I've had throughout my lifetime. So with
Speaker 15: the art thing I've I come from a very geez,
Speaker 15: I'm sorry. I come from a group of very talented individuals.
Speaker 15: My eldest brother was an artist like myself, and my
Speaker 15: mom was also one that didn't really shy away from
Speaker 15: expression of her house. She had tattoos and the different
Speaker 15: hair colors, and so I was able to kind of
Speaker 15: express myself a little early in terms of that. And
Speaker 15: I also saw that tattoos are expensive, so I thought
Speaker 15: I could do that myself, and just being pushed by
Speaker 15: a lot of different people. I played three sports in
Speaker 15: high school.
Speaker 14: And again went my way to college without.
Speaker 15: The without scholarships offers.
Speaker 5: So I've definitely just been pushed.
Speaker 15: By people who have seen potential, seeing the focus that
Speaker 15: I've had in different sports and kind of push uh,
Speaker 15: pushed me sometimes when I do want to push myself
Speaker 15: and just knowing how valuable and important that is, especially
Speaker 15: the the time of my life I was at. I
Speaker 15: definitely would like to be a kind of person who
Speaker 15: can be there for for people who don't always have
Speaker 15: someone to tell them what to do or a certain
Speaker 15: way to go.
Speaker 2: Very cool, very cool, congratulations, that's uh, that's uh inspiring.
Speaker 2: I think because you're twenty three years old, you don't
Speaker 2: get that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just you know, just your your ability to kind
Speaker 6: of think this stuff right right right, and and and
Speaker 6: and set you know, those kinds of goals for yourself.
Speaker 3: And you know that wasn't me.
Speaker 2: So he was picked up. What country club he was
Speaker 2: going to go play? Yeah, you know, good for you,
Speaker 2: Good for you. We'll see what happens with you the
Speaker 2: rest of the way.
Speaker 6: You guys are at home this week, right, uh Northern
Speaker 6: Arizona who you guys handled them.
Speaker 3: Earlier in the year.
Speaker 2: You're home for the next two weeks, right, Uh, yes, sir,
Speaker 2: I believe all right, yeah, okay, back to back, but.
Speaker 5: No, good to hear from you.
Speaker 2: We'll be talking to you guys more often as the
Speaker 2: summer progresses. Thanks c absolutely, thank you for having me people.
Speaker 5: That was fun. Cool.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking I'd never get a tattoo, sorry, because I'm
Speaker 2: too too much of a whim pack.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't know that bad?
Speaker 2: Well that bad. You know what's starting right now? Nothing
Speaker 2: because nothing happen.
Speaker 6: Actually, I actually had this conversation with one of my daughters,
Speaker 6: like if I got a tattoo, what do you think
Speaker 6: it should be?
Speaker 3: And they had nothing.
Speaker 5: Dodgers Dodgers log.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dodgers log or you of a low.
Speaker 5: It doesn't hurt that bad right now I'm going through.
Speaker 3: It just feels like a scratch.
Speaker 4: And sometimes you know because like you know, I've had
Speaker 4: a couple of tattoos where I've had to go like
Speaker 4: like give it a couple of sessions. So you go
Speaker 4: in one week like with Saturday or something, and you
Speaker 4: give it a week. Then you come back and the
Speaker 4: thing is like your tattoo will get really itchy. And
Speaker 4: so like that second session when they're just like when
Speaker 4: like the needles on you, it feels so good.
Speaker 3: It just feels like it's scratching like an inch that
Speaker 3: you can do that.
Speaker 6: I'll take suggestions for a tattoo.
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Speaker 5: Jay, you got Ray.
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Speaker 3: Get Jeff HAMMERSHM on the phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's been a few, Yeah, a few, Yeah, a few.
Speaker 2: I have have you hed one once? I think I
Speaker 2: did not too long to subject. I've wanted a lot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I wanted to today pretty much every day.
Speaker 5: What else? Is this the dog day summers?
Speaker 6: But it is, you know it is. I'm watching a
Speaker 6: lot of golf baseball every night. Scotti Scheffer. Of course,
Speaker 6: he's tied for the lead with Justin Thomas Well, Thomas
Speaker 6: conn Yeah, Thomas Connon. It's funny today. JJ Spahn, Right,
Speaker 6: guy wins the US Open last week. I don't think
Speaker 6: he made the cut. He was six over at one
Speaker 6: point today. But you know they there were a bunch
Speaker 6: of guys that went way low yesterday. I mean Scotti
Speaker 6: Scheffer looked like he was going to shoot fifty nine. Yes,
Speaker 6: he ended up shooting a sixty two eight under part right.
Speaker 6: But today the conditions completely changed. Today there was a
Speaker 6: howling win. They're in Connecticut, a howling win. So JJ
Speaker 6: Spahn US Open champ from last week puts from off
Speaker 6: the green, rolls it up by the hole. But it's
Speaker 6: like at the top of a hill. The ball stops
Speaker 6: before he can get up there to market. The wind
Speaker 6: blows it off the green. It blew it a little bit,
Speaker 6: and it hit the front, the false front, and it
Speaker 6: rolled back off the green, and like that. That's what
Speaker 6: they were dealing with it. So the scores weren't very
Speaker 6: low today. Like Scheffer, he was one of the leaders
Speaker 6: at eight under going into the day. He's now nine under,
Speaker 6: but he's still tied for the lead. Crazy stuff. So
Speaker 6: that and then baseball. I'm watching, you know, Dodgers every night. Okay,
Speaker 6: here's something I would understand. I don't know other people
Speaker 6: have experiences. We're in the Diamondbacks territory, right, Diamondbacks are
Speaker 6: up the road. We're in the Diamondbacks television territory. We're
Speaker 6: also in the Padres television territory. So when the Dodgers
Speaker 6: are playing the Padres, they're blacked out here in Tucson.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what the hell?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know how.
Speaker 6: How is Tucson, Arizona in two different television markets.
Speaker 3: Why isn't it just one? I think it's that way
Speaker 3: with the Cowboys two, right, is it? No?
Speaker 6: No, just the Cardinals. It's just the Cardinals. But it
Speaker 6: makes no sense to me. So so you know, I
Speaker 6: get them. I have the MLB TV thing helps you
Speaker 6: and I, but I can't watch No, I can't watch
Speaker 6: Dodgers Padres games because we're in we're in the black?
Speaker 3: Or did it was on the MLB channel?
Speaker 6: The last three of the three of the four of
Speaker 6: those four games were on the MLB channel.
Speaker 5: Show when was the last time you watched the Dodgers
Speaker 5: in Phoenix? Basically? What's two years ago?
Speaker 3: We didn't go last year?
Speaker 5: What's the make up? What's the Oh.
Speaker 6: You go to you go to a dot, you go
Speaker 6: to a Dodger It's it's half Dodger fans.
Speaker 3: It's I mean, there's blue all over there.
Speaker 2: I went to the Dodgers. I went to the Padres
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks for the weekend. I really couldn't tell. There was
Speaker 2: a lot of Padres, but not not that many.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: No, we went to uh two years ago, went to
Speaker 6: again fifty fifty and yeah, it's it's it's it's fifty
Speaker 6: to fifty.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of a lot of Dodger fans go
Speaker 3: to those games.
Speaker 5: That's kind of how phoenixes anyway.
Speaker 6: With Cardinals like Cargo, Yeah, you know, you go to
Speaker 6: a Cardinals game, and if it's if it's any of
Speaker 6: the West Coast teams, or if it's the Broncos, the Bears,
Speaker 6: the Packers, when when Peyton Manning was playing.
Speaker 3: With it was the Colts Giants, Yeah, Giants.
Speaker 6: You know it's there's a there's a over the Cowboys
Speaker 6: over fifty, forty nine ers over fifty. I went to Uh,
Speaker 6: I went to a Colts game there and it was
Speaker 6: when Peyton Manning was playing and there were just a
Speaker 6: ton of Colts fans there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, so now it's I mean, that's just
Speaker 3: where it is.
Speaker 5: You know, you've been, Yeah, I've been.
Speaker 4: I've been to a Diamondbacks game and a nine Cardinals games.
Speaker 5: Same thing.
Speaker 6: Now, we'll say we went to two years ago, went
Speaker 6: to the playoff game. Yeah, Dodgers, uh, Diamondbacks playoff game,
Speaker 6: and that was mostly Diamondbacks fans. They got the tickets, right,
Speaker 6: I mean, there were still a lot of Dodger fans,
Speaker 6: but it was more Diamondback fans than Dodger fans because
Speaker 6: they went to the game. But you know, no, you
Speaker 6: got you go to that, but you any any but
Speaker 6: any one of the Dodgers play its like that, though.
Speaker 3: You go see them, you go see them in San Diego.
Speaker 3: There's a ton of dog, a ton of dog.
Speaker 5: Hello, you're on the air nine of the ball. Who's this? Ye, Nico?
Speaker 5: What's up?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 21: Why are you trashing my Cardinals?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 6: Because they're easy to trash.
Speaker 21: Hey man? When they're playing a home game the Red.
Speaker 3: Sea, is it forty Cardinals?
Speaker 21: Nobody wants to talk about the forty nine. They're gonna
Speaker 21: be trash this year anyway, you're forty nine ers, man,
Speaker 21: Kyler Murray's winning m v P.
Speaker 3: I'm counting m v PO. Nico. You got somebody that's
Speaker 3: good stuff going, don't you?
Speaker 21: Hey man? I might be enjoying some referra you.
Speaker 6: Got you, you got a new suppliers what you got,
Speaker 6: and he's bringing bringing the good stuff he did.
Speaker 21: Though, I will agree with you, man, the Dodgers Powdres
Speaker 21: aren't a rivalry.
Speaker 3: They're not.
Speaker 21: They're not now the Diamondbacks and the Dodgers, that is
Speaker 21: a very bitter rivalry.
Speaker 6: Well, ever since the dog, ever since the Dodgers jumped in.
Speaker 21: Their pool, I know that pool hasn't been the same.
Speaker 21: I need to sue the Dodgers for like a million.
Speaker 5: Dollars, billion dollars nothing anymore.
Speaker 8: How you been, Nico, I've been all right?
Speaker 5: So tell me who I asked you?
Speaker 6: This?
Speaker 2: About the stadium experience?
Speaker 5: You and your dad? Go, what do you want?
Speaker 21: Man? I don't care. I didn't renew my season ticket.
Speaker 3: You didn't do whatever the hell they want?
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah about Nico? For what reason, I don't know.
Speaker 21: Just became too much, got tired of tail, getting got
Speaker 21: tired of just leaving at halftime after spending two hundred
Speaker 21: bucks on beer.
Speaker 3: Beer prices are hot.
Speaker 5: Well that's a part of is.
Speaker 6: You can't buy a small beer there, right, everything's a
Speaker 6: big fat tall boy?
Speaker 21: Why did just buy two of those tall boys at
Speaker 21: a time? That's the limit?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I can barely drink one of those.
Speaker 5: You're not twenty seven years.
Speaker 3: Old, and I know, I know.
Speaker 21: Hey man, you gotta get a little hair on your
Speaker 21: going at.
Speaker 5: Thank you man with that before you get fired here?
Speaker 5: Thank you, my boy? Nico?
Speaker 2: Was that your first time with Nico's called before?
Speaker 3: Always got that Joe Boy's a cool guy. He sounds
Speaker 3: like cool guys.
Speaker 16: Well four years ago, Nico, he's spent like forty days
Speaker 16: and forty nights in the desert one time.
Speaker 3: Nothing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, getting back to that, Steve, I don't
Speaker 6: know what the answer is, which you know, for the
Speaker 6: Arizona you know, for stadium, I don't know what the
Speaker 6: answer is.
Speaker 3: It needs to be obviously, winning has to help.
Speaker 6: But there's gout, you know, there's I'll admit, there's not
Speaker 6: a there's not an atmosphere that gets you. It gets
Speaker 6: you going right now, and I don't know how you
Speaker 6: create that. But there are little things that you can
Speaker 6: do to kind of that you hope lead to other things,
Speaker 6: right And one of them, as we said, is if
Speaker 6: the band could you know, get the crowd fired up
Speaker 6: at the start of the game with a great band entrance.
Speaker 6: And then if this I mean like the video comes on,
Speaker 6: you know, there's the band video, then there's a team video.
Speaker 6: The team video comes on and there's somebody narrating. You
Speaker 6: can't tell what they're saying, so it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 6: You see that, you see the images and you assume
Speaker 6: somebody is saying something about those images.
Speaker 3: Really you can't, but I can't hear what they're saying.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's not right, it's not again, my my
Speaker 3: hearing is bad. You know, I I blew up a
Speaker 3: firework in my right ear and I got bees buzzing
Speaker 3: in there all the time.
Speaker 6: But you know, the sound, admittedly, everybody knows, and you
Speaker 6: talk to people at the UF, they know that it's
Speaker 6: a horrible sound.
Speaker 2: It's got to be better. Well if we have her
Speaker 2: on anytime. So I'll see what's going on. But they
Speaker 2: gotta do some fan engagement stuff.
Speaker 6: I know they're going to do a meet the Team
Speaker 6: thing coming up and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But you know, the fans got to get more excited too.
Speaker 2: Did you hear our interview with Brennan a lot of
Speaker 2: months I did. He came off fantastic. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: and that's who he is. It was kind of like
Speaker 2: everything has just kind of been let go.
Speaker 6: And yeah, well remember not too long ago that I
Speaker 6: think the big twelve coaches came out and they put
Speaker 6: him at the bottom of, you know, among the listed coach.
Speaker 6: I'm like, we don't know how good a coach he
Speaker 6: is yet because of how bad things were last year.
Speaker 6: I think, you know, a lot of those things were
Speaker 6: bad because of you know, his the hires he made.
Speaker 6: They didn't have a good offensive coordinator, they didn't have
Speaker 6: a good defensive cordarator, they had a terrible offense, they
Speaker 6: weren't competitive in a lot of their games, and there
Speaker 6: were a lot of circumstances, injuries and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: I just don't think, you know, I this year will
Speaker 6: tell us a whole lot more with a with an
Speaker 6: innovative offensive coordinator, a new defensive coordinator who's maybe gonna
Speaker 6: do some different things as well, you know, a third
Speaker 6: a third year starter at quarterback. Let's see what happens
Speaker 6: this year. Clearly he's not the mild mannered guy that
Speaker 6: everybody thinks he is, right you know, on the sideline
Speaker 6: and stuff like that, because one he's lighting his coach's coach.
Speaker 6: He's not like he's not like Jed Fish was in
Speaker 6: the middle of the you know, calling plays and all
Speaker 6: that kind of shu. So it's gonna I'm waiting to
Speaker 6: see what it looks like.
Speaker 5: Are you gonna give.
Speaker 3: Him more than one more than one one year?
Speaker 5: Because yeah, okay, so no more than this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't think he's a terrible coach.
Speaker 6: I think I truly believe they'll have some improvement just
Speaker 6: because they're going to be doing different things. You know
Speaker 6: when when you sat there and thought about it at
Speaker 6: the end of the year, why were they so bad?
Speaker 6: And one probably the seventy five percent reason why they
Speaker 6: were so bad was because of that offense they were running.
Speaker 6: It wasn't built for the guys they had. You know,
Speaker 6: everything was built around dropping back and throwing the ball
Speaker 6: to t Mac and nothing else.
Speaker 3: There was nothing else going on.
Speaker 6: They you know, they had hint injuries at running back,
Speaker 6: but they couldn't run the ball anyways.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know how much of the if
Speaker 3: you how much of.
Speaker 6: The uh that spring thing that they had, you know,
Speaker 6: watching the plays, but it looked a lot to me
Speaker 6: like what you used to see in the Riche Rotis
Speaker 6: where he had just like five receivers that would all
Speaker 6: go out and somebody was always open.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you see, And that's what I'm hoping to see.
Speaker 5: I we'll see, uh.
Speaker 6: I mean, no superstars, right, but just a bunch of guys.
Speaker 6: You send enough guys out there in some sort of
Speaker 6: a scheme and it's up to know where to find
Speaker 6: somebody open.
Speaker 3: And I think he's that kind of a quarterback.
Speaker 2: Well, this will be the year that they have you know,
Speaker 2: the whole drop back pro type of offense that they
Speaker 2: ran last year just didn't.
Speaker 5: Work, No, didn't. And people wanted him.
Speaker 6: To know that, right, and you know what and he heard, yeah,
Speaker 6: right heard, and so let's see what happens.
Speaker 2: Well. I enjoyed the conversation. I'll be talking to him
Speaker 2: again later for you just about who he is and
Speaker 2: would make some ticks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think people still don't know enough about it.
Speaker 5: No, they don't.
Speaker 3: They just don't.
Speaker 6: They think he's this guy who you know, he wears
Speaker 6: the the leys and and they don't see him jumping
Speaker 6: up and down and Mike stoops on the sidelines and
Speaker 6: you don't want that, and you don't want that, but
Speaker 6: you know, but he looks he looks semi uninvolved, right,
Speaker 6: But it's because he's letting coach his coach and he's
Speaker 6: that kind of a coach.
Speaker 3: They've told me had the same issue, right.
Speaker 6: You know, there were a lot of times people say,
Speaker 6: what does he do on the sidelines, where does the
Speaker 6: cat backwards and walks around?
Speaker 3: Well, because he was letting he believed in his coaches.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll see what happens here in a few months. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm excited.
Speaker 5: I just like, yeah, it's a good Saturday, it's a
Speaker 5: good time, good Friday night.
Speaker 3: I want to see what happens.
Speaker 5: Okay, we've got to get some band and they uh.
Speaker 3: Speakers, the speakers, and I got speakers in my car
Speaker 3: that are better than that. Maybe some shape, yeah, and
Speaker 3: a mister. It's just it's the weather man for me.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, you don't even you're not even involved with that.
Speaker 2: You're out in the cozy booth. Yeah, but I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: sure you're thinking about your brothers, people, my peers, people
Speaker 2: go oh my god.
Speaker 5: Okay, let's go. We gotta go. Thanks everybody. Talk to
Speaker 5: you guys next week.