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Armani Lingo on Vegas Sports & Life Behind the Camera | 358 · Hey BigHead: The Vegas Local Podcast

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_02: Dude, now I can't.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_02: Every time I start an episode now, I'm in my own head because Julie calls me out every time.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_02: Because I always start the show with Julie.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I actually was smiling just a moment ago, and I stopped doing it because I knew it would distract you.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_01: I knew I would call you out.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_02: It it distracted me anyways because I felt it.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_02: Julie, I'm excited for today.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_02: And I'll tell you why, because we're gonna talk about one of the many topics I love talking about.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_02: By the way, let's just see how well you know me.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_02: What give me three of the top top three topics I love talking about on this show?
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_01: There's more than three.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um I would say technology.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_02: For sure.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: Restaurants.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_02: Definitely.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_01: Sports.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_02: And you know what?
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_02: We're definitely hitting one of them, maybe two or three of them.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_02: Who knows?
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_02: We'll see what happens.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_02: But today we uh have a an up-and-coming local Vegas sports journalist who basically has a front row seat to everything that happens in this city in this rapidly changing sports landscape.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_02: We're talking Raiders, we're talking Golden Knights, we're talking Aces, U and L V, the PWHL even.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_02: We might even jump dabble into that a little bit.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_01: As we should.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_02: As we should.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh Armani Lingo is here.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to the show, brother.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you so much for being here.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, thanks, man, for having me.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_03: I'm super excited to be here.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_03: And um, you know, how I see it is if you're on the Hey Big Head show, you know you're doing something right here in Las Vegas.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_04: Woo!
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_03: God, a man that knows his way to my heart.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_02: God bless him.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_02: You made it.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_02: Um, first of all, that's an incredible name, Armani Lingo.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_02: Is Armani your your real first name?
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_03: And it's funny, before the show, I was telling them how I was named Armani.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_03: So my mom was at the Caesars Forums.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and uh she was obviously seeing all the shops and everything, and she was like, Okay, I'm gonna name my son either Klein for Calvin Klein, Louie for Louis Vuitton, uh Gucci, which was awesome.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_03: Like they were saying, I'm glad it wasn't.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_03: That's a bullet on the most debatable.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, then Armani, and then she stuck with Armani, and yeah.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_03: Love that.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_03: It sounds good on TV.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_02: It really does.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I think you were born to be on TV.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, if you weren't a reporter, you should have been a pop star or something.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_02: Armani Lingo would How is your singing and dancing moves?
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_03: Well, look, I'm Filipino, so um we're either good at basketball, singing, or dancing.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_03: Uh-huh.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_03: And I got the basketball jeans.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_03: I don't have the singing or dancing jeans.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_03: I love it.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_03: But I'm working on it.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_03: I'm working on it.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_02: So we can work our way up, yeah.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_02: It's a work in progress with Armani.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_02: I love this.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but no, thank you so much for being here, man.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm so excited to have you on.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_02: And the team knows you too.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_02: Julie, you are in school and you actually talk about him in your class.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_01: So, I mean, you know, when you go to school and you get assigned something, sometimes professors will pull up examples of the project that previous students have done.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_04: Sure.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: And me and Armani did not go to school together.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_01: I guess you did your undergrad with one of our other team members, and I'm in the master's program, but they repeat some of the same assignments.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_04: Sure.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_01: And occasionally the professors will pull up one of his examples and be like, I used to have this student, Armani Lingo, and I loved what he did with this project.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna post it on Canvas so you guys can reference it.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_01: So I knew his name before we even scheduled him.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_02: You're in UNLV history, whether you like it or not, you're in there.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_03: That feels, I mean, I'm already blushing.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_03: We're not even talking about when she told me that.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_03: Like the teachers like use my examples and stuff like that.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_03: That's pretty awesome.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, man.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_03: UNOV was such a fun time.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_03: And to, you know, for them to still mention my name around the journalism program, it's truly an honor.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_01: Should we advocate for NIL in classrooms?
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_01: If they use your example, you get a stipend.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_02: You know what?
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_02: I think we may be onto something there.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_03: You know what?
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I I need a I need a couple bucks in my pocket right now.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_03: So I think I'm gonna have to go to uh UNOV and say, hey, if you guys use my name, it's ten dollars every time I said you know what?
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_02: If you need a lawyer, I I'm not a practicing lawyer, but I'm sure I can BS my way through it.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_02: So sweet.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_02: I got I've got the team right here to do it.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_03: You got everything you need.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_03: Let's go.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_03: How long have you been in journalism for?
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so started in college, so this is my fourth year, my only my second year doing it like professionally, working with uh big media companies.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_03: So right now I work with Vegas Sports Today, which is a local media company here in Vegas, and then fortunately I work for NBC Sports, but that's just with the Raiders.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, I'd say it's now heading into my third year.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: So but it's been awesome, yeah.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_02: Is it is it pretty incredible to not only obviously I'm assuming you love sports in general, you're you're a fan yourself, but is it pretty awesome to have to have that as your day job?
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_03: No, it's dude, it's it's surreal.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, just a like quick story.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_03: When I first did this, like my first ever credentialized game was between the Golden Knights and Anaheim Ducks.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_03: And uh didn't know what to expect, right?
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I knew that you know, journalists like they watch the game and whatever, and so I had zero expectations.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm at T-Mobile Arena, I buy this three-piece suit, and I'm like sweating my butt off because I can't find the media entrance.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_03: So I walk in, I'm already sweating, get my credential, has my name on it.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, okay, cool, cool.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_03: So go into T-Mobile.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_03: Um, we set up in the press box, you know, and I'm right next to some of the most talented journalists, uh TV media personalities.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm like, holy crap, like this this is getting real.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_03: And then finally, puck drop happens, and I'm sitting back watching, you know, these guys that I grew up admiring.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm sitting here like, this is my job right now.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_03: I'm watching these players play the game that I I played hockey growing up.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_03: So and I'm like watching these players, and then after we go talk to the players and coaches, and I get paid for that, like that's surreal.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_03: And I was in college at the time, so I'm like, oh my goodness.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, obviously I wasn't getting paid, but still working my way up to hopefully get paid one day.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, when I was just sitting there after that game, I went to the parking garage and I'm like, dude, I think I just found the best job of all time.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, for sure you did.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_03: What's it like in the media room during the game?
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_03: Um, you know, it's I don't want to say it's intense, but everyone in a way is kind of like competing with each other to get information out, just like with you know, in any journalism and environment.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_03: Of course.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but that's what I like.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_03: It keeps you on your toes no matter what.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_03: And it's just all about processing, getting information out, and making sure your information is correct.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_03: So during the game, um, I'm on Twitter always just typing up like play-by-play actions, um, if there's anything breaking news or if there's something big that happens during the game.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_03: So where it really gets a little bit intense is after the game where we have to talk to the coaches and the players, yeah, and that's when it kind of starts to really pick up.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, okay, get the video, post it on my site's YouTube channel, and then create and finish writing up my script for my stand-up, which I do almost practically every um after every game.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_02: And yeah, and when you say stand-up, you don't mean you mean comedy stand-up?
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_02: Are you a comedian?
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_03: I I try I try to be a little bit funny in my in my um in my stand-ups, but but yeah, no, after basically I just set up a camera and you know you've seen the news where it's just the the person in front of the camera just talking about the game.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_03: And that's what I do, and I post it on uh the Vegas Sports Today website.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_03: Nice.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_03: And then yeah, then after that, it's go home, edit.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_03: So I get there about an early, so kind of like the timeline of this.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_03: I get there at like 6 p.m.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_03: at T Mobile Arena.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_02: If the game's at what?
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_02: What time?
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_03: Seven.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_03: Seven.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_03: Puck drops at seven.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_03: So I at least try to get like an hour, an hour and a half early before the game.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_03: And then after that, I don't like it.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_03: Obviously, it's a game, then post-game, and then I get home at like midnight and still like an hour to um edit and everything, and I don't get done until like 1 30 in the morning.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_02: What time do you wake up?
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, I wake up for my next my uh day job at 6 30.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_03: I have to wake up at 6 30.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_03: So some days I only get like five hours of sleep.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_02: But when I'm injecting that coffee into your vision.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_02: Tell me about it.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_03: You I never drank coffee until I saw other journalists doing it.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_03: So it's a bit performative on my part, but now you're reliant on it.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: I am.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my goodness.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_03: Like I said earlier, I drink like two cups of coffee, and I used to hate coffee, but now it's like that's what keeps me going.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_03: That's what keeps me alive right now.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_01: So when you say y'all are competing to get the information out, when you're reporting on something that's happening live in a game, it's not like you have insider information on so you can't have insider information on who's gonna score the next goal.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_03: Right, right.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_01: So, how if all the journalists are watching it at the same time, how do you get the information out first?
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_03: It's more about like I kind of said back to like the post-game.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_03: So sometimes when we talk to players, they don't show that on TV.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_03: So when we're interviewing players, coaches, sometimes they don't, you know, they don't have that on the live television networks.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_03: Uh only us journalists get access to that.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_03: So when you get when we're the only ones that get that access, it's like, okay, so does other 10 10 other journalists, you know.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_03: So and when I say competing, it's kind of like a it's it's just it's a time thing.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_03: If there's five other journalists that post that information before you, you're kind of you're not gonna get that many views because everyone's already on those five journalists that posted it.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_03: So that's how we kind of make our money is based off uh viewership and you know engagement.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_03: Uh is for for at least my sports media company, because we're a smaller sports media company.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_03: So my boss just heavily emphasized like, hey, make sure your info's right first, right?
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_03: We don't want to post any bad information out there that's gonna make us look bad as a company.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_03: But once you know that information is 100% correct, post it right away and get it out so that's because like I said, there's 10 other there's 10 other journalists trying to do the same thing.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_03: So and it's not to say like we it's like a bad, like hateful environment.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_03: That's just part of the job.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_03: That's just part of the job.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_03: You have to just get the information out like that.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_03: That's interesting.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_02: We it's funny.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_02: We have uh a few influencers that are around Vegas that are friends of the show and friends of ours.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_02: And one of my friends is Heather Collins.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_02: And whenever I get invited to something that she doesn't get invited to, it's very early on.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_02: She gets very upset with me if I don't invite her or at least don't give her some content to use.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_02: Because especially with the influencer world, it's all about who's first and who can get it out, you know.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_02: Because anybody can show you know this latest attraction that opened up.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_02: But if 50 people also posted about it ahead of you, right, you know, then your post is just lost in the mix.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_02: So I totally, totally get it uh about being first and yeah, accurate.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_03: And sometimes it's better to be second because first it kind of like when you first post, it kind of like gains some traction.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_03: But then when you post second, sometimes it usually gains a little bit more traction.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_03: It's also just the time of everything.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_03: If you're posting your information at 11:30 p.m., who's up at that time to really check that info?
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_03: So you gotta also understand like on each social media platform, when are people most active on those platforms?
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_03: So that's something you also have to study.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_03: The strategy is different.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_03: Where on TV networks, the you have to meet you have to meet the time and deadlines.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_03: Like they say, hey, you have to get this information out on this time.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_03: If it's 11:30, it's 11:30.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_03: You talk to that so it can help us and help our show.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_03: But when it comes to um local media companies, it's it's a lot different.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_03: It's working based off social media and how you can get uh the most active engagements on your posts.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_03: Fair enough.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_02: Do you think let's let's get to Vegas sports because Vegas sports is really in the grand scheme of things, we're still in our adolescent years of having these major league teams here for sure.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_02: Do you feel that Vegas fans are actually loyal, or are we still a city that people kind of jump on the bandwagon of whoever's winning at the time?
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_03: Well, just to think that 10 years ago, there was nothing.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, there was, you know, the athletics, UFC boxing, and then I don't know if you guys remember the minor league hockey team, the Las Vegas Wranglers.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_03: So this is all very new.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_03: And you look at like Boston, um, some some parts of Florida, Chicago, those are big, big markets for big fan bases, but they've been around since the inception of all these sports leagues.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_03: So we're practically new.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_03: So we're still trying to get a big loyal fan base.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_03: Now, the reason why these teams like to move down here to Vegas is because it attracts away fans like that.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, sure.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so I don't mean to put like a bad light on the Raiders or anything, but you when you when the Chicago like last year, when I covered them, uh the Chicago Bears were in town, 70% of the fans were Chicago Bears fans.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um, even like last Sunday when they played KC, uh, I didn't go to the game, but on TV it's all red around the stadium, you know.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_03: And then when the Dallas Cowboys, who is my team, once they came into town, yeah, it's the same exact thing.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_03: So a lot of these, you know, Mark Davis and some of these guys that move their teams down here know that, okay, it's not a big local fan base.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_03: We know that.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_03: It's it's impossible to say that there's a local fan base because the teams just haven't been around that long enough, you know.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but it attracts away fans like that.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_03: Like if you're gonna anywhere, any in any league, everyone circles that Las Vegas game on their calendar.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_03: Like, hey, we're gonna go travel down there and we're gonna go watch our team.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_03: And then after, you know, we get to watch our football team and have the time of our lives in Vegas.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so every away fan has that Las Vegas game circled, and people are willing to pay a lot of money, as we've seen already so far, you know, and it's the same thing with the Golden Knights when there's these big market Canadian teams like the Maple East are coming here on Thursday.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_03: Nearly almost half the stadium is blue.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_03: And I would say the Golden Knights, when it comes to their fan base, that's like the most connected or most well-rounded uh fan base compared to the other teams here in Las Vegas.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_03: So to see how just to see how all the away fans come down here and have a great time and spend a lot of money, that's what that's what these um owners, GMs are all looking at because that's what makes the team money at the end of the day.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_03: So it's not so much they look at, like I said, the local fan base.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, okay, we're in Vegas.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, people are gonna come inevitably no matter what.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_02: Go into a golden nights game, more so than maybe even maybe the aces as well uh over the past few years, but go into a golden nights game feels like a community hangout.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_02: Like it's to the point where everybody's having a great time, and you're like, where are these people outside of a game?
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I want to hang out with these people when there's not a game going on because everybody seems like they're having so much fun, they're having a great time.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_02: We're all cheering and rooting for the same thing.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_02: A golden night game absolutely feels like that.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_02: I've been to a Raider home game, and it it doesn't feel like that, but that's you know, to be called.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Ace's games, the past few years have started to feel like that, which I love.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_02: Obviously, the fact that we've won a handful of times is helps.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and but yeah, I I I definitely agree with you on that.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_02: But touching on the Raiders, are the Raiders actually good this year?
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_02: I know we just lost last week, but it was a close game.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: We started 3-0, too, didn't we?
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yep, 3-0, and then they played arguably the best team uh right now in the NFL and the Kansas City Chiefs.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, the Raiders are legit.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_03: Even though they lost, that's probably their best loss in the last decade or so.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_03: Um, the way that Clint Kubiak has this team going right now and the system and the culture that he's built, it's legit.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_03: It's legit.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_03: So the NFL is evolving, it's changing, it's shifting in their head coaches right now.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_03: A lot of these coaches are a lot younger, smarter offensive head coaches.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_03: And that's what Clint Kubiak is.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_03: Clink Kubiak was a great coordinator in Seattle, uh, won them the Super Bowl down there.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_03: Big reason why he elevated Sam Darnold, who was a quarterback that was, you know, um before that was considered a bust, wasn't doing so well, but uh did it had a great season under Minnesota and then came to Seattle, and that's where they just elevated his game.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_03: And he's doing that with Kirk Cousins, and they don't really have a receiving core right now.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_03: And Kirk just threw for 365 yards with uh a subpar receiving core.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_03: So the main thing is it's the culture, it's the culture standpoint, it's the identity.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_03: Last year the Raiders went, they only won three games, and they already tied that this season.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_03: And now they're now that they have a culture, we know what they are, we know what they do well.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_03: Last year you point back and it's like, what the heck do these guys do?
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_03: They don't run the ball efficiently, they don't pass.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_03: We know what we're getting with this Clint Kubiak system, right?
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_03: We know that they're gonna run the ball consistently, we know that they're gonna pass down the field with Kirk Cousins, and they're gonna open up the they're gonna open up the playbook.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_03: And their defense is super, super aggressive this year.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_03: They're just there's just a different animal right now.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_03: So I yes, they lost against KC um this previous week, but the way I watched them that whole game, they never gave up.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_03: And the Raiders are kind of well known, infamously known for like once they give up a lead, that's it.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_03: Like they're never coming back.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_03: No, they fought to the very end against a very KC team.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, I want to say that this is a this is possibly a playoff team.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_03: We might get a playoff game here in Vegas, you never know.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_03: But the way that that Clint has his team playing right now, it's it's it's fun to watch.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_03: It's fun to watch, and he's actually making the Raiders interesting this year.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_01: Well, see, and I had faith in the Raiders from the beginning because I put money on the Raiders beating KC.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: We had we occasionally we'll do um some bets around the office with Boomers Sportsbook, who's one of a friend of the show's shout-out boomers.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: We love boomers.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_01: We love boomers.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: And I had Raiders, Cowboys, Vikings.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: I was this close.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_03: And that was the only uh the only game that's there's always that one team that messes up like your four or five leg parlays.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: How did you feel when they announced Kubiak?
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I was I was I was stoked.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_03: I was stoked because in the market at the time, he was one of the main guys.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_03: Um Baltimore's head coach right now, I can't think of his name, was pretty um Jesse Minter.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_03: He was like the top guy in the market, but then after that, it was Clint Kubiak.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_03: And so to hear that they got him after he's winning a Super Bowl and what he's done with that offense in Seattle, I I was stoked.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, okay, they have and we knew they had the first overall pick, which they got with Fernando Mendoza, and then they got Kirk Cousins, and I was like, okay, yeah, no, this is gonna work because Kirk's played under Kubiak, uh, I think when when he was in Minnesota.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_03: So and that was like Kirk some of Kirk's best years.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_03: So now to see how how he's doing this year, and just what Clint, like I said, is just rebuild this culture.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was stoked from the beginning.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_03: You know, I did I expect him to have this great of a start?
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely not.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely not.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_03: But to see it now coming into fruition and how he's doing it, it's like, no, like you give this guy a couple more years, and SpyTech, who has hit on these last couple of drafts, if he continues to hit in these draft picks by hopefully drafting another receiver or another lineman, like this team's gonna be set for the future.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_03: This team's gonna be set for the future, and hopefully it's more raider fans at these games and then away from the game.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_02: You see more black than red in the in the start.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_03: And and you and you're starting to kind of see that.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_03: Even like for this Kansas City game, there was a lot of red on TV, but you can hear like the Raider fans when it was like third down, it was a big third down, you can hear them yelling, and it's like, oh, okay.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_03: You may not see us, but you can hear us.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, yes, there we go.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely, yes.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my goodness.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: And not to keep making this about me.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, please.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_02: You love making it about you.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_02: Don't bullshit.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_01: You're not wrong, I do.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh but see, I feel a little split because I'm in a Vikings household.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_01: Oh we're a Vikings household, but I love Vegas.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: I do.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: So part of me is a Raiders fan as well.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: And one thing that happens with the Vikings, or yeah, with the Vikings, though, is we can start off really strong and then we get derailed somewhere during the season, and then things go really south very quickly.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_03: It's like Minnesota sports in general.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: I know.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_01: Hopefully that doesn't happen with the Raiders, but what do you see as something that could happen this season that would derail the Raiders that they need to avoid?
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, as we're seeing around the NFL right now, it's just injuries.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_03: Injuries just, I mean, it's all about who can stay the healthiest towards the end of the season.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_03: Sometimes those are the teams that just end up playing better, right?
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_03: Because if you just don't have your start running back or your start quarterback or receiver, it's like you can only do so much, you know, with your roster.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_03: So obviously, injuries, that's probably the easiest thing to say, but we need Kirk to still play consistent.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_03: Just, you know, run the system.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_03: We're not asking Kirk to throw five 60-yard plus deep balls.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: We are asking him to do that.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, Julie's asking.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_03: We don't want him to do that, but but they're they're doing a good job of just, like I said, just being methodical with their offense, nothing too crazy.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_03: Just keep it simple.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_03: Keep playing simple football.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_03: It doesn't have to be crazy.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_03: We have a good, we have good running backs, we have a solid line, we have a good quarterback.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_03: We got probably arguably the best tight end in football right now and Brock Bowers.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_03: So just be consistent.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_03: If we kind of just shy away from that system and we have to play more aggressive with Kirk Cousins, who, like I said, is just on the back end of his career, then we're gonna start to make him force like bad plays, and he's gonna look like uh old Brett Favre out there just slinging it.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_03: Just sling it.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_03: So we we obviously don't want to do that.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_03: But like I said, with the system that Kubiak has, there's just there's just no way he's gonna shy away from that.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_03: He knows he understands his team, he understands what he has on his roster.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_03: He know he can't, you know.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_03: If Kirk starts to, if Kirk does start to play a little bit rough though, then we're we might see Fernando Mendoza later on.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_03: But as of now, uh like I said, just the way that everything's going on, it's like, oh, this is so much different.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_03: I just don't see them like all of a sudden falling off a cliff.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's it's gonna, it's gonna be have to be like injuries that derail them or and and and their schedule is tough.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_03: I will not lie.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_03: Their schedule looking ahead is really tough.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_03: They play some fantastic offenses and a great defense.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_03: Like they still got Buffalo, LA, um, Seattle's coming into town.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_03: So there's there they have a pretty difficult schedule ahead, but if they keep that same system, uh I think they'll do just fine.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_02: Brandon is our resident stat boy here in on the Hey Big Head show.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_02: Brandon, how do you feel the Raiders are?
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_02: And where do you where do you see them going this year next?
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, I mean, for four weeks, three out of those four weeks of sportsbooks had us as severe underdogs, and yet we blew the Chargers out of the water by two scores.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: We outscored the Tyler Shuck led Saints, even though he threw for four touchdowns.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: And even though the Chiefs dropped 30 on us, we kept it within three points.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: And you're right.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, these next six weeks look tough.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: We have the Bills, the Niners, the Seahawks, and yet I don't feel like we're completely out of this like stretch.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like we can still come out of this with a winning record.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: And I really do credit Kubiak and these new veterans like Nakoby Dean, Kirk Cousins, for carrying this team.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: And I really just look forward to the season ahead.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_02: Brandon is, like I said, a resident stat boy.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_02: He's got that all off the top of his head.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_02: That's what I'm saying.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_02: I love that about him.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I can't.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_03: I can't.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not really a big stat guy.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_03: I have to have it like in front of me.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, it takes me a minute to just with numbers and everything.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_03: That's why I chose journalism.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_03: I'm so bad at math.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_02: So bad at this point.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_02: You can finagle your way.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_02: You can do enough just to just to sound like you know what you're talking about.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly, exactly.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_02: As long as you sound good, I don't think people will care.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_02: It's almost like, and and touching base on the Raiders, just last thing before we leave, this topic, uh, the Max Crosby trade not fall not going through ended up seen seemingly to be a blessing in disguise.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_02: Um do you feel like he's uh moved past that of that awkwardness of the team not wanting you, but now you know, now gladly we'll have you back.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_02: And then, you know, now that we're winning, it's hard to say.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_03: Max is such a like mental resilient guy.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_03: He is I think he's using it as like a chip on his shoulder, not to like for the organization, but for himself to play better.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_03: And you're kind of seeing that.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, oh, you guys got rid of me, but then it never happened.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, oh, okay, well, I'm gonna show you guys like why you should have never even got rid of me in the first place.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so I think he's using that as a chip in his shoulder, but man, he loves Vegas, he loves being a raider.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, get tattoos of being a raider.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_02: He looks the raider part for sure.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely does.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_03: He absolutely does.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_03: Like you put that guy in the 80s and the and the 80s raider team, and it's like, yeah, that that totally fits him, right?
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so I genuinely think he loves Vegas.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_03: He doesn't want to go.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_03: And the way that's the tough part is before the season, we're like, okay, if the Raiders suck, they're gonna trade Max Crosby for you know more picks or more players.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_03: But now that they're good, it's like you got to keep this guy if you're gonna want to, if you're gonna make a playoff run.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_03: So no, I think Max, I really think he's over that because he's seeing what the organization's trying to do and he he understands that.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_03: But now that he is a raider, it's like, okay, I'm gonna use that as a chip on my shoulder now, and just to let the whole league know that, like, hey, I'm I'm still one of the best offensive ends in football.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_03: Damn right.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you want you want to talk UNLV for a second?
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_02: Let's do it, man.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_02: How do you feel about Jackson Arnold?
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_02: He just threw five touchdowns against Cal?
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, five TDs.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_03: Well, he didn't he uh three TD passes and two rushes, two rushes.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_02: Is he do you feel like he's the real deal, or is this uh a kind of a one-hit rush?
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_03: Man, it's it's tough to say.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_03: Like just watching them this season, it's a bit difficult because they're kind of inconsistent right now.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_02: They really are.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they're they're trying to still find kind of their identity on offense, whether it's Jackson Arnold that's gonna run it or Jaden Thomas, our running back, who is phenomenal.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_03: So they're trying to still figure out like, okay, do we give the do we run the ball more or do we pass more and let Arnold take off?
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_03: Um, this past previous game against Cal, who's a really solid ACC team, uh, the way they had Arnold playing and the the play calls they designed and just the throws he made out there, he was making some NFL throws, like throws you would see on a Sunday.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_03: So for him, it's I said I'm still shaky because I'm thinking about previous games, and it's like, uh, I don't I don't really know.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_03: I think we should hand the ball off more to Jaden.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_03: And then I saw this Cal game, it's like, oh okay, this guy's legit.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_03: What year is he?
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_03: Uh he's all he's a senior.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_03: Senior.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he came from Auburn.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_03: So he's a he was a former SEC quarterback.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: And say Auburn to UNLV is a move.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_03: It really is.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_03: That's what Dan's done really well.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_03: He's taking some guys in the Big Ten SEC and bringing them down to UNLV.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_03: And these aren't guys that aren't like, you know, amazingly good in the SEC because these programs will pay them millions, top of millions of dollars.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_03: But he's still taking guys that had good coaching, um, that has played at a high level down to the Mountain West.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_03: And he's done a great job of that.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_03: But I just think that they got a lot of new players this offseason.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_03: That's the hard thing about the transfer portal NIL.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_03: You get all these new players that are great, but it's like, okay, but none of these guys have chemistry together.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_03: You know, that's what college football is all about.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_03: It's like you develop your freshman class all the way up to your when they're seniors, and it's like these guys have been playing for four to five years, and they they know exactly where you're gonna be out on the field, they know how to play with each other.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_03: It's a little bit different now.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_03: And UNOV's, like I said, on full board with NIL and the transfer portal, but when you move guys in from all different types of programs with different types of systems, it's like how do you mesh that into one, especially at the beginning of the season?
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_03: So I want to say that it's starting to, it's starting to come, it's starting to look good for Unow V now that they got some, what is this, they're they're gonna be playing North Dakota this Saturday, which is gonna be their fifth game.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_03: Um, or I'm sorry, their sixth game.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_03: And it's starting to come into fruition.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_03: I really like how the offense is rolling right now.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_03: Uh the defense is actually making stops.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_03: Last year, the defense was just um it was it was not pretty.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_03: It was not pretty.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_02: Last year we hit we got in the top 25, or was it two years ago?
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_03: Two years ago, yeah.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_03: Two years ago.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_03: I think the highest they got was 19, I want to say.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_03: So so yeah, just to uh just for U know V and you guys been here when they were at Sam Boyd, I'm guessing, and just how how hard it was for the football program.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_03: But now to see it slowly making its way back up.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_02: We like the direction it's going.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_03: It's going in a fantastic direction.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_03: And Dan's doing a pretty good job of trying to keep it that way.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_03: So I do think they're gonna be a bit better as the weeks go on.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_03: It's they like the Raiders, they have a pretty tough schedule still ahead.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_03: Um, this is when they get into Mountain West play, so every game counts.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but yeah, we'll see.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_03: Like I said, college sports is changing, it's changing for the better, and hopefully one day we see these guys in the college football playoffs with all the big SEC teams and big 10 teams.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, I mean, we made it to Mountain West championship quite a few years in a row now, right?
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, three years in a row.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_01: And then, I mean, and Boise State is who always puts us under, right?
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_01: And they didn't they move conferences?
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yep, they moved to the uh Pac-12 with um some other Mountain West teams also went over.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_01: So is this UNLV's year?
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_03: Should be, but but the team, so some teams moved out, and but another team that moved into the division is North Dakota State.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_03: And North Dakota State was not a D1 football school, but they were dominating, absolutely dominating the D2 division.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_03: Um I think it's FCS.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they dominated the FCS level, and now they move up to the FBS level, and they are just hammering every team they play right now.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_03: So, you know, UNOV, it's like, oh great, Boise State left, but then you get this North Dakota, North Dakota State back in.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, oh my goodness, like, no way, is this the new Boise state of football?
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_03: Is this the the team, the one team that we can't get passed by?
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_03: Because that was it.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_03: If Boise State never existed, we'll probably have like five five Malin West championships right now.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_03: But but yeah, it's it's good, it's good for the conference though.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_03: It's good because like I said, all these teams that left, it it kind of like devalued the conference.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_03: But now that we got North Dakota State and the way they're playing, it brings up some value, and that matters when it comes to voting, uh AP voting.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_03: So if we're gonna make the college football playoffs, they look at schedule and they look at your conference.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_03: And if you have a good conference, then you can make then there's a higher chance of you making the college football playoffs.
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• 29:39
  SPEAKER_02: Season X.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_02: Next season, yes.
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• 29:42
  SPEAKER_02: Uh just started the season.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_02: What are they?
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_02: What's the record, Brandon?
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_02: Off the top of head?
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_02: Two and one.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_02: Two and one.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_02: Two and one.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_02: Are they still the team to beat in the NHL?
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_02: At least one of the top teams, or do you feel like the window is closed and we're not as we're not as you know top as where we used to be?
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_03: This is a tough one, man.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_03: Good.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_03: Because you look at their roster, they have such a great roster.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_03: You can be like, yeah, this that roster can be anyone in the NHL.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_03: But I'm looking at the Pacific right now.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_03: They're they're a lot younger and they got a lot faster.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_03: Um, funny enough, I grew up as a San Jose Shark fan, so I keep up with them all the time.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_03: And San Jose looks really, really good this year with their young weapons and Macklin Celebrini, Steinberg, Will Smith, and they're just playing fantastic.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_03: They're playing fantastic hockey.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_03: So Julie, not the actor Will Smith.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_01: I literally knew you were gonna make no idea.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_01: Dumb joke.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_01: I knew it.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_01: I knew you were gonna make it.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_02: He was not getting jiggy with it, Julie.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I wish the actor Will Smith would join the sharks.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_01: But I did side note, I did get a clip on my Instagram the other day of the cool projection they do on the ice to make it look like the sharks are swimming around.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: Do they?
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_03: It's so fire.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's awesome.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, it's it's cool.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_03: Like the Golden Knights always had a great pregame ceremony, and like they're they win every year for production.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_03: And yeah, seeing what San Jose did this year, it's like, oh, okay.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_03: Because this uh San Jose's team is for real.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_03: They're for real.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_03: And um, not I wouldn't say Stanley Cup level, but as I said, the Pacific, their division just got a lot younger and a lot better.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_03: Now, what the Golden Knights did that I'm kind of afraid of into the future is that they trade a lot of their draft picks and a lot of their young talent for these top end players like a Mark Stone, a Jack Eichel, a Mitch Marner.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_03: So it's like, okay, that's a great win now mentality, but when that's over with, it's like, okay, you guys don't have any capital with draft picks.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_03: You don't have young players that develop into the future.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, what are you gonna do?
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_03: You can only trade away so much draft picks.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_03: So I feel like it's gonna eventually bite them back.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_03: It's eventually gonna bite them back.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know if it's this season, but we might see shades of it.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so as as the Pacific got younger, that means the Golden Knights, as you obviously get older in the NHL, there's more injury prone.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_03: You know, there's there you kind of slow down a bit, and the NHL is getting faster and faster and faster.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_03: So it's like, okay, great, we got a veteran team, but can they keep up with these young guys that are just flying all over the ice?
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, it's it's difficult to say.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_03: I want to say the golden knights are still can potentially come out of the west to compete for the Stanley Cup.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_03: But after seeing how some of these other teams are playing right now, it's it's difficult to say.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_03: And we're only three games in, so I don't really have a lot of like just margin to speak on it.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_03: But I do think that's you just what I've seen so far, it it can be a year where it's like, okay, well, let's lower expectations and not say this is a Stanley Cup final team, especially with a new head coach and Ryan Craig.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_02: You have so right now we have uh two football teams going on.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_02: We have the WNBA Aces in the playoffs, and you have the the Golden Knights, their season started.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_02: Do you go to all these games?
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_03: Oh man, I wish.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_03: Uh sometimes you have to, there's just two games in one day, and you have to pick and choose.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_03: Really?
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and then just for my my mental state, um, yeah, there's just some times where it's like I just need a break because like I said, there's days where I get five hours of sleep.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_03: I go to work, and then it's like, oh, do I have to cover another game?
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_03: And then then the same thing, repeat five hours of only sleep.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_03: So there's some games where it's like, okay, just pick and choose.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_03: What do you feel like you have a better story?
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_02: Imagine if you told young Armani back in the day, child Armani, that you had to choose between two games and you're like, oh, I can't believe I have to go see.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_02: I know.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_03: I sound like a spoiled brand.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_02: I'm so sorry.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_02: That's not how it is, but like my I have to talk to these head coaches.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_01: Well, if you just accidentally leave your media pass on the blue couch, I can pull an Armani.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_02: I could say a Marmani.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_03: They got the hairstyle.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_03: You know, just a couple couple inches on me.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_02: Minor details.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_02: Minor details.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_01: Now I know we uh briefly touched on um VGK having just like such a great pre-show production and how their players might be slowing down.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: And maybe I'm biased, but I think that the aces have one of the best Las Vegas athletes to ever exist.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_01: Now, with that being said, I don't know much about Vegas sports history.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_01: But would you say that Asia Wilson is one of the greatest Vegas athletes?
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, 100%.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_03: She's the most dominant player in the WNBA right now.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_03: You know, you mean Vegas has some great players in Jack Eichel and Mark Stone, but they how Vegas plays, it's more team-oriented.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_03: And the W, it's like, okay, if Asia's not on the floor, then I don't think the Aces get anywhere.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_01: Whoa, okay.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: I love Jackie.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_01: Don't okay.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, yes.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_03: No, they have so much talent, but that whole system runs around.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_03: Don't you talk about Jackie Young?
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_03: Don't talk about Jackie like Jackie Young, and yeah, Jackie Young too, like a phenomenal player, but like I said, Asia's just a different breed.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_03: Totally.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, when they rely on her like in the clutch to make a big bucket.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_03: If it's like Kobe, you throw him the ball every time you need a bucket.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_03: Same thing with Asia.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_03: You give her the ball when you guys need a bucket and you need to win a game.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_03: Asia will take over for that.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, I mean, our sports history isn't obviously that long.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, I would say if you're to do a top 10 list, Asia Wilson's number one on every top 10 list you see of Vegas athletes play down here.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_02: So and I would say with the Aces, we are spoiled with them because out of the X amount of years they've been the Aces here in town, they've won a handful of championships and almost to the point where you expect them, with Asia still on the team and the the rest of the team still, you know, the the core team still together, you almost expect winning from them more so than I'd say the Raiders, more so than probably the Golden Knights, at least in my opinion.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_02: Right now, when this episode airs, game two of the second round will already air, but they're down 1-0 uh against the Valkyries.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_02: What do you feel like is the biggest hurdle keeping the aces from winning another championship this season?
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_03: Uh sometimes, you know, it's it's more about just them biting themselves or shooting themselves in the foot.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_03: Um when they play to their standard and when Becky has them playing as one as a group, they're unstoppable.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_03: There's no one beating them.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_03: So at the end of the day, I really do think it's more of them shooting themselves in the foot and not performing, you know, to the level that Becky wants them and then not playing good solid defense.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, sure.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, the main thing, like I said, is like, okay, obviously you need to get Asia like 20 plus points.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_03: She'll get she'll get her double double, but it's like, okay, can the depth of the team step up too?
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_03: Right?
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_03: We kind of know what Asia's gonna do.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_03: We pretty much know what we're gonna get out of Jackie and Chelsea too, but can the bench step up?
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_03: Can can can they get some points for for for when Asia's out of the game and when Chelsea's out of the game and Jackie's out of the game.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_03: So I always said like the aces and their roster, like you put them against anyone, they should dominate.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_03: They should, they should win.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_03: But it's just at the end of the day, you know, if they're not they're not making their shots or just the defense is off, then it's like, okay, you're leave you're leaving some wiggle room for these teams to beat y'all.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_03: But no, I just think at the at the end of the day, if they play their style of basketball that Becky wants them to do, and that's just go hard on defense, go all out on defense, give Asia the ball, you know, distribute it on the perimeter and make your buckets.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_03: It sounds so simple, but it's legitimately how that's how good the aces roster is.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_02: Julie, let me see your jump shot.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_02: Let me see your form.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_02: What do you got?
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm sitting down, so it's not a jump shot.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_02: Set shot.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_02: Kobe.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_01: Kobe.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_01: That was good.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_01: This is how Andrew shoots a basketball.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_02: First of all, how dare you?
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_03: You shoot like granny stuff.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, exactly.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, in between his legs.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_02: I go like that.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_03: Have you have you seen uh how Larry Bird shoots and he brings it all the way back?
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, all the way back, yeah.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I I didn't notice this until I started playing basketball with my friends, and they're like, dude, you got that Larry Bird shot.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm like, what?
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_03: I'm bringing like all the way back here.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_03: I got that 80s jump shot.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_03: Good for you, but we listen.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_03: It worked for them.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_03: It'll work.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, exactly.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_03: If it's not broke, don't fix it.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_03: I guess.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_02: I forgot who the NBA pro was, but one of the uh greatest free throw shooters of all time did the uh the the granny shot.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_02: Um Julie Okay look up give me like the top five free throw shooters in the history of WA NBA.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_02: No, Shaq's not up there.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_02: Shaq's definitely up there all time.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_01: Free throw shooters in all of NBA.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_02: It was that's what you're asking for.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_02: He played in like the 80s or the 70s.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_02: Uh he had this un Okay.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_01: Well, if you want the top five that Google's giving me, Stephen Curry, Steve Nash, Mark Price, Damian Lillard.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_01: Don't know how to say this name, Pesia Stoker.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_01: Page.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_02: Uh okay, so maybe it's top ten.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_02: Either way.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_02: Whatever it is, the unconventional shooting of the granny shot works, but nobody wants to do it anymore because it's it's an it's it looks embarrassing in this day and age.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_03: So that's funny.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_03: And we mentioned Shaq.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_03: They actually try to make Shaq do the granny shot.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_03: Shaq was like, screw you guys, I'm not gonna look stupid in front of millions of people.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_03: Rick Berry.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_01: I have oh, I was about to say I have three famous underhand users.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_01: Rick Berry, Wilt Chamberlain, Canyon Berry.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_01: Wilt Chamberlain.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was really good.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_02: That's it.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_02: How about that?
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_02: Um let's talk about the PWHL.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_02: We just had uh the GM of the uh the PWHL Vegas team, uh Julie loved her.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_01: I love Dominique.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_02: Dominique was was fantastic, she was so just well spoken, such uh and she she was a fan too.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_02: You could tell she was a fan, not just of the team, but of the the game itself, uh, which was a nice, a nice like breath of fresh air.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_02: And the fact that this was a new role for her.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_02: She didn't really have she doesn't have any experience with as a general manager, but she has experience as an agent.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_02: As an agent and a player, and working with the Kings, the Kings hockey team.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_02: Good for her.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_02: Uh it was great.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_02: Do you think the Vegas market makes sense for women's professional hockey right now?
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_03: Look how like I said, look how the aces are doing.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_03: The PWHL is so fun to watch.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_03: It's so fun to watch.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_03: Like being a hockey player myself and how seeing how the ladies play hockey, it's like, dude, some of them will kick like some some dudes like dudes' asses out there.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like they are badass.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_03: Um, so for them to bring down a hockey team in this market with how good the Golden Knights is and how hockey's growing here in Vegas, with how well the aces are doing, how that fan base is growing, it only makes sense.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_03: It only makes sense.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_03: And it's going back to what I said before.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_03: Even if it's not a good local market at first, a lot of away fans are gonna be coming here.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_03: So I think they open up their uh December 6th, they open up at T Mobile Arena, and I'm praying that it's a packed house, yeah, cheering our ladies on.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_03: I'm hoping I can get credentials for that.
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_02: Listen, we know a few people.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe we can uh maybe we can slide them a favor or something.
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_01: I have possibly the most important question of this entire interview.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_02: You can ask it to me or to him?
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_01: To him.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, no need to give me the that look.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_01: We all have our own hypotheses about what the Vegas PWHL team is gonna be.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_02: Hasn't been announced yet.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_01: Has not been announced yet.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's going to be the Vegas Oasis.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_01: What do you think it is going to be?
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_03: I thought it should be Queens.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_01: Really, Armani?
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_02: Disappointed Julie to the whole different extent.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_03: Well, look, Queens makes sense.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you got the aces.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_03: You got the kings in the NGOs.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_02: Do you want them to be called the Kings?
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_03: Let's just call them the Jokers at this point.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_02: Julie's ruthless.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_02: I thought it would be, I thought maybe they would give homage to the casino we just lost, the Mirage.
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_02: I think the Vegas Mirage, it doesn't really roll off the tongue as well as Oasis does.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_02: But maybe they'll, you know, it's kind of in an homage to uh a casino that was that is beloved.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_02: Um but what about flamingos?
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_01: That'd be cute.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, flamingo.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_03: You want to keep it better than queens with like black and pink jerseys?
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_03: I think that'll look so sweet.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_01: Unfortunately, their colors are set.
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_03: I know, yeah.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_03: That's the thing.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so when I saw the colors, I was like, oh, let's do Queens, but then I saw the color scheme and I was just like, oh, okay.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I don't know.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_01: I saw someone say it might be like the desert roses or something.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_03: Which is cool.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_03: I actually like that, which would be cool.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_02: Will Seal be the official anthem?
• 41:57
  SPEAKER_02: Like the Kiss by a Rose, Kiss from a Rose song from Seal, will that be the official anthem if they are called the Desert Roses?
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_02: Do you know the song?
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_02: Do you?
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_02: Sing me the chorus.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_01: Nope.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_01: We'll get demonetized.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_02: Because of your singing or because of the Both.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_01: Both.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_01: But um, I mean, I I agree with you that women's sports is massively supported here in Vegas, but do you think that our fan base has the bandwidth to support a third hockey team?
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, I guess absolutely.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, demographically, Henderson's in Henderson.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_03: There's there's that.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_03: But if they're playing in the Las Vegas area, like I said, I mean, hockey is only continuing to grow, grow, and grow.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_03: If you look at youth hockey right now, and the reason why they're building all these new ice rinks is because there's a market for it.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_03: Sure.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_03: And there's a good fan base, and it's gonna only continue to grow, grow, and grow.
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_03: Whether if the golden knights are doing well, whether if our women's hockey team is doing well, hockey is now a staple of Las Vegas.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_03: It's probably, I mean, it's so crazy.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_03: Like when the Wranglers are here, no one really cared about hockey.
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_03: Like I said, I grew up, I grew up before playing hockey down here before the Golden Knights.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_03: There wasn't a big community.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_03: Now when I go to the rink, the the parking lot's full, it's a bunch of new kids playing hockey.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_03: So absolutely, absolutely.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_03: Like I said, it's it's just a smart, it's smart for Las Vegas, it's smart for the PWHL to continue to grow the sport and women's hockey.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_03: And it's gonna be so good for young ladies too that wanna also they're inspired and get into hockey.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, it it all connects, it all just connects, and it was only just a matter of time for them to put a woman's hockey team down here.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_03: So like I said, I'm so glad.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_03: If you see like some of the the um Canada games with the PWHL teams, it's it's packed.
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_03: Montreal, when they won um the the trop or sorry, their championship last year, their parade looked like a an NHL parade.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_03: Really?
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_03: If you guys if you guys want to look up videos, look up um I I forgot what the Montreal team is in uh for the women's hockey, but look up their parade.
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_03: It's the whole city's there.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_03: The whole city's there.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_03: And when the ladies are on stage talking and you can see this everyone in the background, it's like, oh my goodness, like that's crazy.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_03: That's awesome to see.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_03: So now that Vegas is doing that, and if hopefully when they win a championship and they we have a parade down there, it's the same thing.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, like I said, women's hockey is so so fun to watch.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_03: You guys have no idea.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_02: It's pretty cool to list because we're we're listing off all these professional teams that are here in Vegas.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_02: And Vegas over 10 years ago didn't have any professional teams.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_02: And now we're going through basketball, football, let's talk about baseball because we got this$2.1 billion stadium coming in on the strip, which I'm excited to see, but it's also gonna be a clusterfuck down there.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_02: Do you still do you do you feel like it's still a good investment if the Vegas team doesn't start winning in the early years?
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I know that the athletics are doing pretty solid right now, they're doing better than they were at, but yeah, no, it really is.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_03: Because I mean, like I said, it just goes back to what we were talking about with away fans and um coming down to this market.
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, if people are gonna go no matter what.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I think the problem is that some of these tickets are a little bit too expensive.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_03: That's what a lot of locals complain about.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, why would I want to pay$300 to go see one game and then pay like$50 a parking and then pay for concession food that's gonna be like$60 for a family, so it's just not worth it, right?
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_03: And but that's just the economy we're in right now.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_03: But you need to at least just put the teams down here, let it grow over time, and then the fan base will ultimately come.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_03: You're still gonna make your money off the away fans.
• 45:41
  SPEAKER_03: That's fine.
• 45:41
  SPEAKER_03: If you if if these organizations are worried about money, they don't have to because they just know that there's just they're gonna get a constant flow from away teams and the fans.
• 45:50
  SPEAKER_03: So it's it's with the local population though, or the local fan base, you have to be patient.
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_03: You have to let it develop over time because this is just happening so quick for people.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_03: It's like really which team do I hop on?
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
• 46:01
  SPEAKER_03: Because all these, all these everyone was a fan of another team before the Vegas team came down here.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_02: We realistically could have if if the athletics or whatever they're going to be named, if they make the playoffs and all the other teams make the playoffs, that we could literally have one, two, like six or seven teams, professional teams, go on at once, at one time.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_01: You don't think they're gonna be the athletics?
• 46:20
  unknown: I don't know.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_03: Let's ask the expert.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_03: What do you think?
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_03: Uh well, yeah, they're gonna stay as the athletics, just how like the Raiders are the Raiders.
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I think too.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, don't give me that look.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_03: Honestly, I think they're gonna be called the Queens.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_03: It just costs my guess, it costs so much money to rebrand a team like that from all the Germans.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_01: Didn't they already they have that beautiful mute pull-up, and I'm pretty sure they already says that.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_02: Brandon, can you mute Julie's mic for the rest of the episode?
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_02: Did you go?
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_02: We got a little taste of uh A's baseball here in Vegas when they played at the the ballpark.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_02: Did you go to that?
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_03: I did not.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_03: I was that's I was covering like I think uh I forgot what was going on, but I was covering another event that was going on.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_02: What does that tell you about what this because it was packed from I I didn't go to it, but we've we've had people on the show that have gone to it, and they all have said it was packed, it was awesome, it was a great experience.
• 47:10
  SPEAKER_02: What does that tell you about the how the city's gonna you know kind of receive them, I guess?
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_02: Is it is it does it seem like they're gonna be excited?
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, absolutely.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_03: Uh it's there's a lot the baseball uh fan base down here is pretty big.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_03: It's pretty big.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I mean, you think about like Bryce Harper played baseball down here, Chris Bryant, who uh played for the Cubs when they won the World Series, played baseball down here.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_03: So baseball is a big staple to Las Vegas, and inevitably there's gonna be a good solid fan base that comes down here.
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_03: And yeah, like you said, the ballpark was filled to the brink.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, sir.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_03: Everyone, everyone is really excited for this team to come down here.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_03: Even if not, there's gonna be people from California that are gonna travel down here to go watch the game.
• 47:53
  SPEAKER_03: So, but yeah, the hype, I would say the hype is real.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_03: The hype is real.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_03: I think that it's gonna be interesting when all these teams are down here, like the NBA, once the NBA comes, the MLB, NFL, uh, NHL, like how the scheduling is gonna work.
• 48:06
  SPEAKER_03: And then it's like I said, it's gonna be like a pick and choose for fans.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_03: Whoever's doing the best in the city, that's everyone's gonna go to.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_03: If if the team is not doing well, then local fans are just not gonna go, you know, because there's just so much things to do here in Vegas.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_03: Miami kind of has the same problem.
• 48:21
  SPEAKER_03: Like the knock on Miami has always been like, well, there's you know, if this team sucks, I'd rather just go to the club than watch the Sucky baseball team or the Sucky basketball team.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_02: Is it this is it next season or the two seasons for that we get the A's in town?
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so the stadium is done in 28, so I think it's two seasons.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_03: It's two seasons, yeah.
• 48:39
  SPEAKER_02: I'm excited.
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_02: I'm going to the first game.
• 48:41
  SPEAKER_02: I'm going, I may throw out the first pitch, Julie.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_02: Never know.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_03: You won't.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_03: With the people you're interviewing so far, yeah.
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, they were on their way.
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_03: I have two years.
• 48:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, two years to grow this show so we can throw out the.
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_01: Who do you think gets him the people that he interviews on this show?
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_03: Oh this is that's fair.
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_03: I thought he just had a deep comebook that he was just.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_01: He does.
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_01: He does, but it's like his his fifth aunt and random people.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_03: So if I need a person, I'm I'm coming to you.
• 49:15
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_02: I may be the face of this, but Julie's the brains behind this by far.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_02: Well, and it's right.
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_01: That's really nice of you.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_01: That's like maybe the one nice thing you've ever said.
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_02: Is that a nice thing?
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_02: I thought maybe you'd take it as like an insult.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_01: I can be ugly and pretty.
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm ugly and smart.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_02: A face for radio?
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_02: Is that what you're saying?
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_03: To get Aaron Ford on the show during this time, like during the election process and everything, that's that's that was huge.
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_03: That's impressive.
• 49:41
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, I would love to take credit for that, but I think this is my favorite part of the show because she's gonna say that I got him on the show.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_02: But go ahead, continue.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_01: That is not what I was gonna say.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_01: I was gonna say, I think as a collective, everybody on our team, I think we've gotten to the point where we do put out a really cohesive and and well thought out product.
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_01: And I wanna say that probably because we were fortunate enough to have Congresswoman Susie Lee on, Aaron Ford's team reached out to us.
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_03: So that was pretty good.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_01: That felt very lucky.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_01: And while we didn't reach out to them, I do think it is that our team works well together and we've figured out how to create something that people want to engage with.
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_02: We do talk shit to each other and we bust each other's balls every now and then.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_02: But this team is that that we we put together is is phenomenal.
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_02: Julie's is bought in.
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_02: She's, you know, like I said, she really is the brains behind it all.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just kind of the one that throws ideas out, and she either, you know, says, Yes, that's a great idea, or she shoots them down.
• 50:35
  SPEAKER_01: We both do that.
• 50:36
  SPEAKER_02: You guys are really curious.
• 50:37
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 50:37
  SPEAKER_03: Like I said, the people that you guys bring on.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_03: And isn't it awesome how like you get one big name on and then another big name contacts you?
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_03: It's kind of just how like that's uh that's just kind of how the media business works, you know.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_03: So once you get one big fish, there's another big fish that's ready to come right over.
• 50:52
  SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
• 50:52
  SPEAKER_03: So that's Vegas.
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_03: I love it.
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_03: And yeah, exactly.
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_03: That that is so Vegas.
• 50:56
  SPEAKER_01: And speaking of the Vegas media business, I'm with you in being an advocate for journalism across the city in general, but there is such a unique opportunity right now for people to get into sports journalism in Vegas with how many new teams are coming in and how many different companies behind those teams are going to need to hire people.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_01: What is your advice as somebody who went to school here and learned the ropes of it and now works in the Vegas media industry to tell to these young aspiring journalists?
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and this was I actually went to uh Secta High School a couple of weeks ago to talk to students and being like, hey guys, like Vegas is the perfect market to get started in right now.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_03: Like you guys are like this time right here, uh before everything comes down here and before all these media companies hire everybody, it's like you guys need to get involved right now.
• 51:43
  SPEAKER_03: It's like like Vegas is like the Amazon or Netflix stock, it's only gonna shoot up, and once it shoots up, that's pretty much it.
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_03: So you want to invest right now.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_03: So, what I was preaching to um the younger journalism crowd is to just create your own social media brand.
• 52:00
  SPEAKER_03: We're starting to see traditional journalism shy away now, and we're starting to see everything, everybody's taking their news off social media, and that's kind of the new wave.
• 52:10
  SPEAKER_03: And as journalists, we have to adapt to those times.
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_03: Like, you know, there's newspapers and then the television networks come out.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_03: Now it's a social media era, and we have to learn how to adapt to that.
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_03: And we have to not only study these media platforms and these algorithms, but know who our audience is and keep posting out content so you can get a better understanding of who your audience is.
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_03: So what I say right, what I say to them right now, it's like, it's okay.
• 52:34
  SPEAKER_03: You're you know, you don't have to like aspire to be working on ESPN or Fox on a Fox network, these big networks.
• 52:41
  SPEAKER_03: You can make a name for yourself right now if you wanted to, if you're being consistent, if you're posting your own content.
• 52:46
  SPEAKER_03: And then that way these companies can be like, oh, look at this guy, like he already has work, he's solid on camera.
• 52:52
  SPEAKER_03: Let's hire him and let's bring him on.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_03: Because that's how a lot of these big networks are hiring now.
• 52:56
  SPEAKER_03: It's like they're just looking at your portfolio and your social media.
• 52:59
  SPEAKER_03: And if you see if they're if you're bringing in good viewership, they're gonna want that for their company too.
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_03: So and you're kind of seeing that with um uh what do you call it?
• 53:10
  SPEAKER_03: Um influencers a little bit.
• 53:12
  SPEAKER_03: It's like these guys start from basically nothing, they just start posting on TikTok all of a sudden, and then they get big, and then they get sponsorships, they get um, they get hired by these big uh networks to to do certain stuff for them.
• 53:26
  SPEAKER_03: It's like the same thing in sports media.
• 53:27
  SPEAKER_03: That's just how the media business works now.
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_03: So to get involved, all you gotta do is just create your own social media platforms, talk about your favorite teams, talk about your local sports, start to interview, you know, high school students or high school athletes and work your way up.
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_03: One thing I do want to mention, by the way, I this is a bit of a promo for UNOV right now, but UNLV is gonna have one of the best sports media journalism programs in the country.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_03: I'm telling you right now, once we get all once we get all four major sports, dude, we have total access to it.
• 53:58
  SPEAKER_03: So I mentioned the bigger markets like Boston, Chicago.
• 54:03
  SPEAKER_03: Those schools down there have to compete with other schools to get credentials.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_03: And those are already established markets, so there's already like hundreds of media companies wanting to cover just one single game.
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_03: We don't have that just yet here in Vegas.
• 54:15
  SPEAKER_03: So ULV gets total access to all this, all the games, all the practices, and Kevin Martin, who's the um shout out Kevin.
• 54:25
  SPEAKER_03: I love Kevin.
• 54:26
  SPEAKER_01: We love Kevin's.
• 54:27
  SPEAKER_03: Are we clocking it, Julie?
• 54:28
  SPEAKER_03: Is that what we're doing?
• 54:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, yes.
• 54:29
  SPEAKER_03: For for Kevin, she's she's such a not only a fantastic teacher, but just an amazing woman.
• 54:34
  SPEAKER_03: She's so great.
• 54:35
  SPEAKER_03: She's so she's fantastic.
• 54:37
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, like Kevin and her connections, you tell her, like, hey, I want to cover this game, it's done like that.
• 54:42
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 54:42
  SPEAKER_03: So sometimes for other schools, it takes a minute.
• 54:45
  SPEAKER_03: Like it's sometimes you gotta wait months to cover that one game or that one team you've been wanting to do.
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_03: Uh UNLV, you you you get to cover that team right away, and you get to get access to everything just like that.
• 54:56
  SPEAKER_03: And that's the great thing about UNLV right now.
• 54:59
  SPEAKER_03: And it's only gonna continue to grow, grow, grow, more, and more and more.
• 55:02
  SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, if you're a young journalist that really wants to get involved, yeah, the best time to do it is right here, right now, in the Vegas sports media market.
• 55:09
  SPEAKER_02: That's a little insider info from Armani.
• 55:11
  SPEAKER_02: I like that.
• 55:12
  SPEAKER_02: I'm here.
• 55:12
  SPEAKER_02: Are you gonna go back to school?
• 55:14
  SPEAKER_02: I may go back to school.
• 55:15
  SPEAKER_02: I may record the whole thing, or we'll have it be a full episode of Big Head.
• 55:18
  SPEAKER_02: Perfect.
• 55:18
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe I can meet Kevin.
• 55:19
  SPEAKER_01: Big Head goes back to school.
• 55:20
  SPEAKER_01: We can I can get Kevin to come here probably today.
• 55:23
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 55:24
  SPEAKER_03: Make the call do yeah, Kevin will speak better on that because I mean, obviously, she's teaching.
• 55:29
  SPEAKER_01: I think you spoke very well about it.
• 55:31
  SPEAKER_03: But but but yeah, she is the real deal.
• 55:33
  SPEAKER_03: She's the one that practically got me my two gigs out of college.
• 55:36
  SPEAKER_03: She's such an amazing teacher, and like I said, such an amazing person.
• 55:39
  SPEAKER_03: Do you have a mentor in all this, or are you just kind of learning this as you go?
• 55:42
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, so after college, no, it was just more of just me self-teaching myself this stuff and really understanding social media, um, how to build my own brand, how to build my own, you know, how to market myself.
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_03: Because it's like, okay, I have the access now that I get to go to the games, and being a freelancer is is a positive because I didn't sign any contracts.
• 56:02
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 56:02
  SPEAKER_03: So not all of my work goes to the company, and they get to decide whatever they want to do with Mark.
• 56:08
  SPEAKER_03: I get to post my own work and what I do at these games.
• 56:11
  SPEAKER_03: Under under certain circumstances, right?
• 56:13
  SPEAKER_03: Whatever, whatever my boss tells me that I can and can't post, but still, he he gives me a lot of leeway to post whatever I want on social media.
• 56:20
  SPEAKER_03: And yeah, all of it is just kind of just self-taught.
• 56:23
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, keep building my name up.
• 56:25
  SPEAKER_03: And it's old are you?
• 56:26
  SPEAKER_03: It's great.
• 56:26
  SPEAKER_03: I'm 24.
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, you're a baby.
• 56:28
  SPEAKER_03: You're you're you're already this far and you're 24.
• 56:30
  SPEAKER_02: You're you're gonna cry.
• 56:31
  SPEAKER_03: I'm I'm absolutely blessed, man.
• 56:32
  SPEAKER_03: And it's just it's just uh it's it's it's a it's a work ethic at the end of the day.
• 56:37
  SPEAKER_03: There's people that are competing that that want to be in the spot that you're in.
• 56:40
  SPEAKER_03: So you just gotta keep working on yourself and not really worry about what other people say.
• 56:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, just you gotta focus on yourself and be a better person than you were yesterday.
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_03: So that's that's why I try to preach to just everyone.
• 56:52
  SPEAKER_03: Like, don't worry about all these people that are you're gonna you're gonna there's a bunch of talent around you, no matter what.
• 56:57
  SPEAKER_03: There's gonna be talent no matter what, but you work on yourself to get better.
• 57:00
  SPEAKER_02: Also, they they they help you grow too.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_02: They you know, whether or it's it's healthy competition, even yeah.
• 57:05
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 57:06
  SPEAKER_03: I uh seeing some how, like I said, there's so much talent down here in Vegas, it's unreal.
• 57:10
  SPEAKER_03: And to see how some of these TV uh sports media personalities are, I've learned so much from them, and it's like, okay, I want to try and add that to my game so I can be a better journalist at the end of the day.
• 57:20
  SPEAKER_02: So now that we have you, and we're I'm gonna ask you a question that's on the record, and I want your honest opinion on this.
• 57:25
  SPEAKER_02: Is Vegas the national sports capital of the country?
• 57:30
  SPEAKER_02: Can we finally have it be the sports capital as as approved by Armani?
• 57:36
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
• 57:38
  SPEAKER_03: Tell me what other city has F1, PWHL, NFL, NHL, MBA, um WMBA.
• 57:47
  SPEAKER_03: We got everything.
• 57:48
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna get the Super Bowl, the college football finals is gonna be here in uh next year in January.
• 57:53
  SPEAKER_03: Everybody wants to come down here to Vegas, and everybody wants to be a part of it because Vegas is the only city that can hold events that can hold four major sporting events in one day.
• 58:03
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and there's not gonna be a single problem.
• 58:05
  SPEAKER_03: We're the only city that can do it.
• 58:07
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe a little traffic, yeah.
• 58:08
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe a little traffic for local, yes, local traffic.
• 58:11
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we're gonna circle your calendar because sooner or later, once we get this MLB team, it's gonna be a shit show.
• 58:17
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, there's gonna be like four games in one day, and it's like, yep, we're avoiding Tropicana, we're avoiding the strip.
• 58:22
  SPEAKER_01: So maybe you'll have to figure out how to go to all four.
• 58:24
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my goodness.
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_03: I I should do a video on that.
• 58:27
  SPEAKER_03: Sports reporter goes to four games in one day.
• 58:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, wear one of the little lav mics and run around the city.
• 58:35
  SPEAKER_03: Sweating balls.
• 58:36
  SPEAKER_03: I know for real.
• 58:37
  SPEAKER_03: I have to leave like during the second period of Golden Knights game and go to like the eighth inning of a baseball game and then catch like the final minutes of an Aces game.
• 58:45
  SPEAKER_03: That would be fun.
• 58:46
  SPEAKER_03: Honestly, honestly, it would be interesting.
• 58:47
  SPEAKER_03: Now you guys gave me a good idea.
• 58:49
  SPEAKER_03: I'm definitely gonna do full of good ideas.
• 58:51
  SPEAKER_03: Be like, shout out to the Hey Big Head show for giving me this idea.
• 58:54
  SPEAKER_02: That's why Julie's the brains of the operation, because she comes up with ideas like that on the spot.
• 58:58
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 58:58
  SPEAKER_02: Brandon's my stat boy, Julie's my brains.
• 59:01
  SPEAKER_03: It works out great.
• 59:01
  SPEAKER_03: You've got the Avengers over here.
• 59:04
  SPEAKER_02: Am I Tony Stark?
• 59:05
  SPEAKER_02: Julie?
• 59:06
  SPEAKER_02: Do you know who Tony Stark is?
• 59:07
  SPEAKER_02: No.
• 59:07
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
• 59:08
  SPEAKER_03: You give Tony, you give Tony Stark.
• 59:10
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 59:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'll take that as a compliment.
• 59:11
  SPEAKER_02: By the way, Julie Scarlet uh is uh the Black Widow.
• 59:14
  SPEAKER_02: Black Widow, yeah.
• 59:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you're definitely.
• 59:16
  SPEAKER_01: I know who she is.
• 59:17
  SPEAKER_02: Who is she?
• 59:17
  SPEAKER_01: She's cool, smart, and hot, and I can be Black Widow.
• 59:20
  SPEAKER_01: Me, me and Kevin.
• 59:23
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Armani, last question before we go.
• 59:25
  SPEAKER_02: Do you know what these posters are behind me?
• 59:27
  SPEAKER_02: Where they're from?
• 59:28
  SPEAKER_02: Star Wars, yeah.
• 59:29
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 59:29
  SPEAKER_02: Julie, what's your favorite Star Wars movie?
• 59:31
  SPEAKER_01: The first one.
• 59:32
  SPEAKER_02: What what's it called?
• 59:34
  SPEAKER_01: Star Wars.
• 59:34
  SPEAKER_02: What happened to it?
• 59:36
  SPEAKER_01: The Avengers show.
• 59:37
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
• 59:38
  SPEAKER_02: Julie's never seen Star Wars before.
• 59:40
  SPEAKER_02: And every time we have a guest on, even if they they I see them looking at the poster, I'll bring it up.
• 59:44
  SPEAKER_02: The fact that Julie still, we're 80 episodes in and she hasn't seen a Star Wars movie.
• 59:49
  SPEAKER_01: I literally just told my husband last night, next time it's my turn to pick the movie, I have to pick Star Wars.
• 59:54
  SPEAKER_01: He thought I was kidding, and I said, I'm actually exhausted of being bullied at work.
• 59:58
  SPEAKER_01: So I have to watch the movie.
• 59:59
  SPEAKER_02: I I hope you don't watch it because I can still bully you.
• 1:00:02
  SPEAKER_01: No, I'm gonna show what I'm gonna watch all of them, and then we're gonna play Star Wars Jeopardy.
• 1:00:06
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna dominate small.
• 1:00:08
  SPEAKER_02: That's like me asking Armani sports questions and thinking I know more than him.
• 1:00:12
  SPEAKER_01: That's true.
• 1:00:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:00:13
  SPEAKER_02: Armani knows the ins and outs of all sorts of Vegas sports.
• 1:00:16
  SPEAKER_02: Try my best.
• 1:00:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:00:18
  SPEAKER_01: That would be fun.
• 1:00:19
  SPEAKER_01: We could have you, Armani, and Mike Davis and do sports jeopardy.
• 1:00:23
  SPEAKER_02: That could be a really S E N.
• 1:00:28
  SPEAKER_03: It sounds familiar.
• 1:00:29
  SPEAKER_02: He's uh he was on Fox Five.
• 1:00:31
  SPEAKER_02: Now he's on Triple S E N Triple S E N, which is what?
• 1:00:34
  SPEAKER_01: Silver State Sports Entertainment Network.
• 1:00:36
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:37
  SPEAKER_02: Really good guy.
• 1:00:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:00:39
  SPEAKER_02: Um he was uh I I pick he's he's been on the show too.
• 1:00:42
  SPEAKER_02: I pick his brain a lot because he was an intern on Howard Stern, and he kind of saw that as you know as his first big break and learned a lot about it.
• 1:00:51
  SPEAKER_02: And I I adored Howard Stern growing up.
• 1:00:54
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, seeing any sort of you know, whatever information I can get out of his brain, I'll gladly take.
• 1:01:00
  SPEAKER_02: And uh really good guy.
• 1:01:01
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna have him on the show coming up too.
• 1:01:03
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, he's coming back.
• 1:01:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's coming back.
• 1:01:04
  SPEAKER_03: You're definitely the Howard Stern of Vegas.
• 1:01:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yes!
• 1:01:07
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 1:01:08
  SPEAKER_01: Get the wig.
• 1:01:08
  SPEAKER_01: I've been called somebody get the wig.
• 1:01:10
  SPEAKER_02: I've been called the barber you should be that for Halloween.
• 1:01:12
  SPEAKER_02: I should.
• 1:01:13
  SPEAKER_02: I just rock the cutoff sleeves, got the glasses, got the wig.
• 1:01:16
  SPEAKER_02: I've been called the Barbara Walters of podcasts because every now and then I get guests to cry on the couch, but also the Howard Stern of Vegas.
• 1:01:22
  SPEAKER_02: I'm okay with that.
• 1:01:23
  SPEAKER_02: I'm here for that.
• 1:01:24
  SPEAKER_02: Armani, you're a fucking rock star, man.
• 1:01:26
  SPEAKER_02: Where can people find more of Armani?
• 1:01:28
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so my Instagram is lingo sports eight.
• 1:01:32
  SPEAKER_03: Um, my TikTok is 702 Sports Reporter.
• 1:01:36
  SPEAKER_03: My ex account is Armani uh underscore lingo eight, and my YouTube is just search up ArmaniLingo slash lingo sports and you should find you got it all.
• 1:01:46
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, man.
• 1:01:46
  SPEAKER_03: Like I said, social media is the new wave.
• 1:01:48
  SPEAKER_03: It really is.
• 1:01:49
  SPEAKER_03: No, so gotta be solid on all platforms.
• 1:01:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 1:01:52
  SPEAKER_03: Except I I don't have Facebook though.
• 1:01:54
  SPEAKER_03: That's okay.
• 1:01:55
  SPEAKER_03: That's okay.
• 1:01:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:01:56
  SPEAKER_02: I'd rather you go hard on the platforms you are on and not half-assed on a platform.
• 1:02:01
  SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
• 1:02:01
  SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
• 1:02:02
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's that's my mentality.
• 1:02:03
  SPEAKER_02: Julie, do you have any last-minute questions?
• 1:02:05
  SPEAKER_02: Did you want to bring to your class?
• 1:02:06
  SPEAKER_02: You're gonna tell your class that you had Armani on the show?
• 1:02:08
  SPEAKER_01: I absolutely will.
• 1:02:09
  SPEAKER_01: I go to school tomorrow.
• 1:02:10
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, perfect.
• 1:02:11
  SPEAKER_01: And I'll tell everyone.
• 1:02:12
  SPEAKER_01: Please tell me.
• 1:02:12
  SPEAKER_01: I hung out with Armani.
• 1:02:14
  SPEAKER_02: Open up your books to chapter eight, and you'll hear all about Julie meeting Armani on the show.
• 1:02:18
  SPEAKER_02: Perfect.
• 1:02:19
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 1:02:19
  SPEAKER_03: Tell everyone I said hi, by the way.
• 1:02:20
  SPEAKER_01: And Kevin.
• 1:02:21
  SPEAKER_01: I will tell Kevin.
• 1:02:22
  SPEAKER_02: Get Kevin on the show.
• 1:02:23
  SPEAKER_02: I want to see this.
• 1:02:24
  SPEAKER_02: Who this Kevin is.
• 1:02:25
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, we'll get Kevin.
• 1:02:26
  SPEAKER_02: I can't wait.
• 1:02:27
  SPEAKER_02: Armani, I hope you have you back, man.
• 1:02:28
  SPEAKER_02: This is so much fun.
• 1:02:29
  SPEAKER_02: And I could talk about sports all day.
• 1:02:31
  SPEAKER_02: I know Brandon could absolutely talk about sports all day.
• 1:02:33
  SPEAKER_02: Brandon does talk about sports all day.
• 1:02:35
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, so anytime you're on, he he's gonna get excited.
• 1:02:37
  SPEAKER_03: How about this?
• 1:02:38
  SPEAKER_03: Have me back on it when the Raiders make the playoffs.
• 1:02:40
  SPEAKER_01: That'd be fun.
• 1:02:40
  SPEAKER_01: What about if any of the teams make the playoffs?
• 1:02:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'll tell you what.
• 1:02:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and then it's like a guarantee.
• 1:02:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
• 1:02:45
  SPEAKER_02: Let's have you back on when some professional team is in the playoffs.
• 1:02:48
  SPEAKER_02: How about that?
• 1:02:48
  SPEAKER_02: Let's do it, man.
• 1:02:49
  SPEAKER_02: Because I want you back sooner rather than later, just in case.
• 1:02:51
  SPEAKER_03: No, I absolutely love this, guys.
• 1:02:53
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you so much.
• 1:02:53
  SPEAKER_03: And like I said, be a part of this and all the legends you guys, Vegas legends you guys interviewed on the show.
• 1:02:59
  SPEAKER_03: It's it's really truly an honor being a part of the show.
• 1:03:01
  SPEAKER_03: It means a lot, but it means a lot for it.
• 1:03:03
  SPEAKER_01: Future Vegas legend, Armani Lingo.
• 1:03:05
  SPEAKER_02: There he is, the one and only.
• 1:03:08
  SPEAKER_02: Well, boys and girls, catch a new episode each week on HeyBighead.com.
• 1:03:12
  SPEAKER_02: Armani, you were awesome.
• 1:03:13
  SPEAKER_02: Julie, have any last words for our boy before we go?
• 1:03:16
  SPEAKER_01: Aye.