January 17, 2024 • 25 mins
In this episode of “Inside the Oval” presented by Dignity Health, Kody Acevedo spoke about his path to the 49ers, offered advice to people who want to get into the industry, shared what he’s most excited for during the team’s Divisional Round matchup at Levi’s® Stadium and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Who many countdown for you? Who may be producer mode?
All right?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Stand by, Patty and Haley stand by to go in
three two one, Open up.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Welcome to the Insight the Oval Podcast presented by Dignity Health.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
I'm Patty Kwan and I'm Hailey Jones.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
And today we are joined by Manager of Live Events Production,
Cody alta Vedo. Cody, thank you so much for joining
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
To start off? What does it mean to be a
manager of Live events production for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, it's kind of like ambiguous, isn't it. But basically
what that means is all of the content, all of
the video board assets that you see here in the stadium,
whether it's inside on the big boards or outside on
the boards that you can see from the streets. All
that content comes through me and my department, and we're
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the ones that curate it and produce it and make
sure that it's airing at when it's supposed to. So
it boils down to the stuff that we pre produce
to everything that we produce live on game days. So
if you come to the stadium and you see stuff
here on the big boards around the led boards around
the exterior boards.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That's what we do.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I feel like your job has a lot to do
with being like everything being on time or like at
a very specific time. How many alarms do you have
set in the morning.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
For you to wake up on game days? I hardly
even sleep the night before game day. I probably only
get like four hours of sleep, to be honest with you,
on a game day. So I usually have three for
most game days, but I also have three for every
day as well. But yeah, it's always just one of
those things where the night before the game, I'm just
a little bit like amped up and ready to go.
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And especially those one o'clock games were here so early
in the morning at like seven am, So it's very
very few hours of sleep the night before.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
You a morning person.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I can be after a few cups of coffee, Yeah,
I can be. The hardest part of any morning for
me is just getting out of bed, and once I'm out,
I'm oh, absolutely, it's just getting the courage, especially this
time of year when it's really cold.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yes, and it's.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Freezing really cold in California.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Is it's like.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Thirty Like it was like thirty four degrees the other
morning when I woke up. Listen to you East Coasters
were whimps. I get it, I understand, but thirty four
degrees out here is cold.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Absolutely. You also do the face swaps for the video boards.
You have a favorite face swap you've done this season?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Uh, the one with Brandon Aiyuk and Debo.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
That one was pretty good, well.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Because they reacted to it on the field.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, they did, they did.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It's fun when they look up and see it, and
then when we capture them doing that. It's also really
fun because we don't get to see that upstairs. We
just play it back and we don't actually get to
see any reactions at all. It's just us counting out
to the next thing. So then when they do see
it on the field and they react and we strategically
know that one's always tough because we strategically play it
at a time when the game is at a high,
Like we don't want to play that after like an
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interception or the opposing team scores, Like the last thing
we want to do is, you know, have the team
have something go against us and then we put something
funny with the guys up there and then it doesn't
go over well.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So we always strategically.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Play it at a good point in the game and
hopefully the guys are amped and when they react to it, well,
it makes it that much better.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
You went to ASU, I did the Walter Cronkite School
of Journalism.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
To be exact.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Wow, you guys did your homework.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
We sure did. LinkedIn is a great resource.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
The journalistic person inside me is very proud.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
What did you think you wanted to do for a
career when you were in college.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I wanted to be a play by play broadcaster, So
that was the whole reason I went there. Was because
I grew up a big baseball and football fan. But
my favorite thing to do is listen to baseball on
the radio, specifically because radio broadcasters just have a different
style of doing the game. And I grew up in
the LA market, so I got to listen to Vin
Skelly my whole life growing up.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I wanted to be him.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And everybody in my family still thinks that that's what
I'm doing. There's a lot of them that still think that,
and they hope that I can do that one day,
but really it's such a different career path I'm on now.
But that was the whole point and so I got
in and I started doing radio play by play my
freshman year for our radio station, our student radio station
out there, and I did hockey, and I did softball
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and baseball and basketball, and.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I liked it.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It's hard, it's really really hard. It's a lot of
prep and it's a lot of work. And then eventually,
as I went on through school, I did a lot
of writing as well, and then that led to video editing,
and then I got to combine the two working for
the Dbacks as an intern, and so that's kind of
what led me into the game pres world.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
You minored in Criminal Justice, I did. We are both
big like CSI Law and Order fans, So am I? Okay?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Great?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
How accurate are those?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So I'm a big CSI guy.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
My favorite show growing up was the Vegas edition of CSI.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I'm a Miami Girl.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You're a Miami Girl in New York? Okay, yeah, okay,
well there we go. We have all three covered. There
you go. I'm sure a paramount plus loves us because
they're all in there. But I don't know how accurate
those shows are. Probably not very I don't know. I mean,
I think, because you know these things, some of these
things take a long time, Like you know, some of
the stories. When I was in school, I did cover
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some crime and stuff before I was doing sports stories.
And I mean a lot of the stuff I was covering,
you know, these guys were caught maybe ten years after
the crime, ten twenty years after the crime was committed,
and then you know, you watch follow up stories and
it takes five to ten years for them to get
sent sometimes and then an episode of these shows everything
happens in an hour, you know, or very quickly anyway,
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So probably not the most accurate, very dramatized, but yes,
I did minor in criminal justice yep.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
From graduation. It was year path to the forty nine
ers graduation.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I was interning with the Dbacks in the spring of
twenty seventeen when I graduated, so I strategically waited until
my senior year to intern with them because I knew
the internship existed back then. I still think they do this,
but back then they pulled half of their intern pool
for game pres from the Kronkite School. So I believe
they had like ten interns that year, and five of
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us came from ASU and the other five were from
various other community colleges or places around Arizona, and so
I wanted to do it when I graduated, so that
once I graduated, I still had about five or six
months worth of something to do, and I didn't have
to find a job right away. It just so happened
to be that that season, the d Backs were really
good and they made it all the way to the
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wild Card beat the Rockies and then played the Dodgers
in the Division Series and got swept. But it was
a good year of baseball up until that point in Arizona,
and it was really really fun to be part of
a postseason appearance for them and a win at home
in the Wildcard Game. That was when the Wildcard Game
was just a one game win, an en sort of deal,
and so it was a real Game seven type of
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atmosphere at Chase Field. So that was super cool. And
so from there I just started networking with people at
other places. The guy who produces games at ASU used
to work for the d Backs and he came in
for a visit. His name's Brett Osbrooks, and Brett gave
me a ton of opportunities after I graduated and after
the d Backs in Church event did, and I did
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football games and basketball games and baseball, and so that
carried me into the following year.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And so then in twenty eighteen, I.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Had worked for d Backs ASU and then I got
on with the Son's crew as well.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So then I was working with the Suns.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And then one of the gals who does expression, which
is our graphics playback for the d Backs, she was
working at the Cardinals at the time, and she said, Hey,
you know, they have an opportunity to go work for
the Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Would you want to do that?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
And so, long story short, there I got in with
the Cardinals crew, and so I did twenty eighteen and
twenty nineteen with the Cardinals as well down in Arizona.
And so during the twenty eighteen year, I freelanced for
every team. I got in with the Coyotes crew, and
I was just literally making my own schedule and freelancing
full time, which was great because I could work as.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Much or as little as I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I worked a lot, but I also made sure that
I was off during the days that I wanted to
be off, and I met a lot of people down there.
And then through all of that at the Cardinals, my
boss now Laura Johnson. Her sister Nina worked at the
Cardinals and was manager of all the expression graphics there,
and so I got to know LJA a little bit
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through Nina. During those those two seasons, I was with
Arizona and then stayed in touch. We did some stuff
over Zoom during the pandemic, and then I worked for
a production company based out of Phoenix doing virtual work
during the pandemic. Then I got a job with ASU
full time. So I went back to Sun Devil Athletics
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and worked there for a year, and it was during
that year that lj's sister Nina moved to the d Backs.
So during opening Day twenty twenty two, Nina was working
for the d Backs, LJ came out to visit and
I was working with the d Backs as a freelancer,
and our paths crossed and she gave me heads up
that there was a job opening, and so I applied
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and the rest of his history.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So that's how that happened.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Do you remember your first project when you first got
to the Niners.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yes, I can't forget my first project, the short lived
Golden Gateway.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Presented by Cisco.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah. Yeah, the short lived Hallway project. It took a
lot of time and it wasn't around for very long,
but we.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Did what to episode or two.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
We did what we did for total.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
One of them was a dry run. We used the
game as just a behind the scenes like run through.
The technology just wasn't there to make that one happen.
It wasn't for a lack of effort or a lack
of people who knew what was going on. It's just
that the technology really that we needed to do this
wasn't there, and the juice wasn't worth the squeeze, as
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we like to say.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
On that one, I thought it was interesting because I
would be in that hallway, yeah, and so I'd see
people and like they would see me. But it was
weird because I didn't I don't know who these people are,
and they're not there to see me. I'm just there
at you know, at a time in pregame where they're
waiting for the team to come out.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Well, the whole idea was.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
For this wasn't a public thing, so it wasn't like,
you know, the masses knew about this, but it did
go out in a press release, so I mean it
was public. It just wasn't something that a lot of
people got to experience. Pretty much nobody got to experience it.
But the idea was that, you know, when the players
came out through the player tunnel, before they got out
on the field, there would be fans and some monitors
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to like yell and pump them up and cheer them on,
and they can interact with them as they came out.
But what we found was a couple of things. One,
it's so loud and it's so dark and the lighting
is so crazy in there that it's really hard to see.
Second of all, the players are in like game mode,
so they're not really looking to interact with fans in
that moment because they're about to run out to seventy
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thousand plus people here at the stadium. And then three
you know, it was the idea was kind of like
sending folks to a breakout room in Zoom. So they're
watching a show in the main room and then we
send them to a breakout room which happens to be
one of these monitors. And then the other part of
all of this was we were building a pregame show
around it. So Lindsey and Michael Kennedy, who Michael's our
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in game one of our in game hosts. He co
hosted this pregame show with Lindsay. So on top of
all of this, we were building a thirty minute pregame show,
and so the audience would come in, watch the show,
and then get sent to the hallway and then come
back and it was time for kickoff. Which it all
sounds great in theory, and it just didn't practicality.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
It didn't work out.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
In general, what's the most challenging thing about your job?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I think, honestly, the most challenging thing is getting everybody
to row all together at the same time. I mean,
we have a game day crew of over two hundred
sixty seventy of them are here on game day, and
so during the week leading up to the game, we
are communicating with various folks about what's going on and
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how we're going to execute it. And then come game day,
it's getting everybody to get in line and figure it
out and do it together. And that's the most challenging part.
The technology is the technology. I mean, there's always going
to be challenges and issues with it that you have
to overcome. But you know, we do a really good
job of communicating with our crew, and our crew does
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a really good job of jumping in and tackling what
we ask them to do.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
But it's not easy.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
It's not easy for us, it's not easy for them
because a lot of these folks are freelancers who work
different gigs, and they may work for the Giants and
they may work for the Warriors and the Sharks, and
then they have to come over and figure out what
we're doing, and what we're doing is totally different from
everything else they're doing on a normal day to day basis.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So that's that's got to be the hardest part for sure.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
We know you set your three alarms to get up
in the morning, it's game day.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
What does your game day look like?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
We usually roll in about if it's a one thirty
game or one twenty five kick, we usually roll in
around seven am. And then we have sent our scripts
and rundowns out the day before, and we allow anybody
who has changes or requests changes to make changes before
seven o'clock. And so once the seven am window hits,
then I go and print everything out.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Well, there's a pregame meeting usually.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Around eight o'clock, just to go over with ops and
logistics about any last minute changes, and then we go
upstairs to the.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Control room and we start rehearsals.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
And rehearsals happen for about two hours on game day
with the crew down on the field right so it's
gold Rush, Niner, noise, sour dough.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Any halftime rehearsals.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
If we have a special halftime that requires a lot
of moving parts, will rehearse that anthem rehearsals, and so
that happens for about two hours, and then about ten
thirty we have a production meeting with the entire crew
to run through everything just one final time. There's any
last minute changes or questions, that's the opportunity to ask.
And everybody breaks for about half hour for lunch, and
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they grab lunch upstairs, and then everybody's back on ninety
minutes before the game, and that's when our pregame show starts.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
What's your favorite lunch item in the press box?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
So I don't actually eat a lot on game days.
That's the other thing. I don't really eat on game days.
So it's I don't I think I've had one meal
here in two seasons.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
No sleep, no eating, no, I'm just health down.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I'm coming in just in perfect condition. There's coffee. There's
some coffee.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Well, old machine, I am yeah, you got it down.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
No, it's I don't eat on purpose, and it's because
I'm stationary. I can't move, I don't get up. It's
like getting in a car and driving for six hours
without a bath and break. So I choose to not
eat just in case I don't want to have to
get up and run around and stuff. I'm stuck in
a place for so many hours in a row that
I don't want to now after the game, yes, I
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usually like first thing I find, I just kind of
scarf a couple of slices of pizza down or something.
So game days are the epitome of health.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Oh we just say that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
For those who don't know, you were also featured in
the NFL's twenty four Hours to kick Off series.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
They did it.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
You know, they do it across the leading They did
ours for Week five against the Cowboys.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Can you tell us a little.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Bit about that experience, and you know, you're so used
to being kind of behind the scenes, right, what it
was like to kind of get in front of the camera.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
It's weird, you know, when you have a producer asking
you questions and the cameras like right in your face,
and all of a sudden you have to think about
everything that you are just talking about meetings and stuff.
It's kind of easy to a certain degree, but it's
not easy to talk in front of a camera. So
anybody who does it for a living makes it look
really easy. That means they're really good at it, so
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to do it is super tough.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
But you know, it was it was an honor to
represent our department.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Like I said, there's a lot of people who make
game days possible and I'm a very very small piece
of it. But it was cool to, you know, see
it come together. I thought the league's crew did a
really good job of piecing that thing together. I was
super curious to see, like how that would come together.
But I thought they captured our pregame up until kickoff
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as best as they possibly could, and it looked really good.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
So that was fun.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
The difficult part for me was was that that was
in a stretch of three games in a row for us,
and we actually filmed the sit down part like a
week and a half or two weeks before the Dallas game.
So I had three games worth of information in my
head and I have to stop and go, wait a minute,
what are we doing for this game?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Am I talking about the right game?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And then some of the stuff at the time we
couldn't talk about because they were asking questions about our flyover,
which is a big point of emphasis on our pregame show,
and there was a looming government shutdown happening, so we
didn't know if we were gonna have a flyover, so
we had to film different takes about if we had
a flyover, if we didn't have a flyover.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
And then on game.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Days it was a real like the Office type of
thing where they had the crew following me around and
miked me up, and sometimes I'm talking to the producer,
sometimes I'm talking into the camera and showing them things,
and so it was like having the Office here in
real life, just following us around and doing our thing,
which was interesting.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
What's been your most memorable game day moment?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Oh man, I would say the win after Dallas last
year in the Divisional That was that was super cool.
That game was it was a really close game. For
those who don't remember, I mean we were in it.
We were behind, we were you know, it was closer
than I think people realize. And last season, I was
sitting in the in the front room, and we have
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two control rooms. We of have a front room in
a back room, and the front one faces out into
the stadium. This year, I'm in the back room, so
I don't get to hear the crowd react in real time.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
We have to hear it through the microphones.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
But to see that, see that game finish out, and
to hear the crowd and just the whole game, that
whole game was just electric here and it was awesome.
And then I think a lot of people realize that
and pick that up because there was a lot of
cool articles that came out about the home field advantage
that the Niners had during the playoff run last year
up until they went to the NFC game in Philly.
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But yeah, I think that was my favorite because it
was also like the end of my first season, and
it really like capped off the first year and to
see it go out on such a high was super
cool and it was a lot of work that led
up to that moment.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
So yeah, on that note, we are once again heading
into home playoff games here at Levice Stadium.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yep, what are you looking forward to?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I think there's just a different level to the fan
experience when it comes to playoffs. You know, our entertainment,
you know, amps up a lot. You know, everybody knows
that the stakes are a lot higher and that you know,
it's you know, win or go home for every game.
And now that we've secured home field advantage throughout with
the number one seed, we're we're you know, we can't
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be superstitious, and what we do we have to plan
ahead as if we're going to have two games here
at home, and so that's what we're doing, and hopefully
we do. We want to because we have a lot
of cool things that I can't talk about, but a
lot of cool things lined up that the fans I
think are really really going to get a kick out of.
And and it's gonna not only entertain them at the
level that it should, but it's also going to provide
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a great home field advantage for the guys in these
two potential playoff games here at home.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
So you know, the fans are really into it.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I mean, these are for sure, like you know, the
diehards that react to our prompts and they react at
the right times, and they help us create that advantage,
right because you know, if if they're not here, then
we just have flashing graphics and no noise, and it
doesn't mean anything. But those graphics and the music that
we play and the entertainment that we provide, it just
amps it all up. To have them here and to
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have the faithful completely fill this place up, which is awesome.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Going back to your job, do you have advice for
someone who wants to.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Do what you do?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I think what I would tell somebody is one, you know,
be prepared to leave home, right because a lot of
these jobs are only in certain places. So if you
don't grow up in an area where these teams play
or where the stadiums are, like, most people that we
work with aren't from here.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
They're from somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
And so you have to be okay with being far
away from home and you know, away from family, and
and it's a lot of work, you know, it's we
don't work typical nine to five hours. We work nights, weekends,
holidays and other sports it's a lot more right. You know,
baseball has eighty one home games, hockey and basketball have
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round forty and those all happen when people are off right,
because they're why they want the fans to come. They
want to do it on the days in which people
aren't working and at the times when they're not working.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
So but we are.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
So I think for a lot of people who are
looking to get into this, you know, college students and stuff,
I tell them the same thing, which is just you know,
you're not going to have normal working hours. You have
to be okay with that, and you're not going to
be able to do it always in the place that
you want to, but you can always work towards that.
And you know, we remind ourselves of that a lot
when we're here on the weekends. You know, there's weekends
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we work here even when the team's on the road,
because early in the season we use those away games
to test a lot of the stuff here at the
stadium to make sure it's up and running and ready
to go when they do come home. So I think
for me this season, I've sat at home and watched
football like one or two weeks out of the whole year.
Otherwise we've been here working on home games. So it's
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it's just one of those deals. And so I think
as long as you're okay with that and you're prepared
and know that going into it, then you'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
You have an intern this year, you guys are having
another intern next season. When you're looking at resumes or
in interviews, are there any red flags that immediately just
kind of pop off to you?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I mean, aside from the obvious ones like typos and
you know, grammatical mistakes and things. I think you know
the reason why I even say that is because this
job requires you to be very detail oriented.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I mean, we produce everything.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Everything you see here scripted, I mean for the most part,
but it's produced down to like the second, right, the
flyover coming over at the end of the national anthem
is a science. It's not you know, if it happens
right on time.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
It's a mix between luck and really really good preparing
and planning.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
But you know, we produce things down to the second,
and so you know, the PA copy has to be correct,
the timing has to be correct. We have to put
things up on the board that are correct. Like we
don't want to put typos up there. We don't want
to put like the wrong picture of somebody up there.
Like we have to put everything up there and it
has to be correct. And so you know, if you
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really don't pay attention to those things, then you know,
how can we trust you to make things for us
that are going to be accurate? And so, I you know,
those are the things if you're able to be detail
oriented and you know, if you're if you're a good writer,
you know, if those are the things I look for,
because we're going to we may ask you to write
some things for us. We may ask you to produce
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some things for us. And you know, the sky's a
limit really when you come in here and intern with us,
because we kind of just throw you into the fire
and say, here.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
We go, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And uh, if if you can't get those basic things right,
then that that really is.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
A red flag for sure.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Finally, Cody, the question that we always end with.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
As a listener, you'll know what's coming.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
You know what's coming.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I'm sure you have an answer prepared. Other duties as assigned.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Oh, it's my favorite line. It's my favorite line. And
the job description.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yeah, my other duties as assigned. I think that's so
hard for me to answer and to be honest with you,
I didn't even know what I was going to say
for this, because it's just this year in particular has
been a year in which that's kind of just been
our main our main job description. You know, how are
we going to We're a small department. How do we
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make up for people maybe that we've lost or we're
still trying to hire or whatever the case may be.
So it's kind of like we jump in and we
just go around asking what do you need?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
What do you need? What do you need?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
And to be able to be a bit of a
Swiss Army knife means that you're going to do other
duties as assigned.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
We we build and take down the stages, and that's
something that you're not coming in here and just you know,
sitting at.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Your computer all day.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
There's days where we get down and get dirty, we
put the gloves on. And our entertainments ages where the
foghorn sits or where the DJs sit, I mean, we
help build all of those, we help take them down
at the end of the season. We help store all
this stuff, you know around the stadium, that's all of
our entertainment stuff. So that would probably be the one
where I sit here going yeah, other duties as assigned.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
That's got to be it.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
So well, Cody, thank you for joining us, especially going
into the division around. I know you're super busy, so
thank you so much for being on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I'm finally on it two years later, here we go.
Thank you guys. It was a lot of fun.
Who many countdown for you? Who may be producer mode?
All right?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Stand by, Patty and Haley stand by to go in
three two one, Open up.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Welcome to the Insight the Oval Podcast presented by Dignity Health.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
I'm Patty Kwan and I'm Hailey Jones.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
And today we are joined by Manager of Live Events Production,
Cody alta Vedo. Cody, thank you so much for joining
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
To start off? What does it mean to be a
manager of Live events production for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, it's kind of like ambiguous, isn't it. But basically
what that means is all of the content, all of
the video board assets that you see here in the stadium,
whether it's inside on the big boards or outside on
the boards that you can see from the streets. All
that content comes through me and my department, and we're
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the ones that curate it and produce it and make
sure that it's airing at when it's supposed to. So
it boils down to the stuff that we pre produce
to everything that we produce live on game days. So
if you come to the stadium and you see stuff
here on the big boards around the led boards around
the exterior boards.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That's what we do.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I feel like your job has a lot to do
with being like everything being on time or like at
a very specific time. How many alarms do you have
set in the morning.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
For you to wake up on game days? I hardly
even sleep the night before game day. I probably only
get like four hours of sleep, to be honest with you,
on a game day. So I usually have three for
most game days, but I also have three for every
day as well. But yeah, it's always just one of
those things where the night before the game, I'm just
a little bit like amped up and ready to go.
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And especially those one o'clock games were here so early
in the morning at like seven am, So it's very
very few hours of sleep the night before.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
You a morning person.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I can be after a few cups of coffee, Yeah,
I can be. The hardest part of any morning for
me is just getting out of bed, and once I'm out,
I'm oh, absolutely, it's just getting the courage, especially this
time of year when it's really cold.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yes, and it's.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Freezing really cold in California.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Is it's like.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Thirty Like it was like thirty four degrees the other
morning when I woke up. Listen to you East Coasters
were whimps. I get it, I understand, but thirty four
degrees out here is cold.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Absolutely. You also do the face swaps for the video boards.
You have a favorite face swap you've done this season?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Uh, the one with Brandon Aiyuk and Debo.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
That one was pretty good, well.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Because they reacted to it on the field.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, they did, they did.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It's fun when they look up and see it, and
then when we capture them doing that. It's also really
fun because we don't get to see that upstairs. We
just play it back and we don't actually get to
see any reactions at all. It's just us counting out
to the next thing. So then when they do see
it on the field and they react and we strategically
know that one's always tough because we strategically play it
at a time when the game is at a high,
Like we don't want to play that after like an
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interception or the opposing team scores, Like the last thing
we want to do is, you know, have the team
have something go against us and then we put something
funny with the guys up there and then it doesn't
go over well.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So we always strategically.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Play it at a good point in the game and
hopefully the guys are amped and when they react to it, well,
it makes it that much better.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
You went to ASU, I did the Walter Cronkite School
of Journalism.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
To be exact.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Wow, you guys did your homework.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
We sure did. LinkedIn is a great resource.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
The journalistic person inside me is very proud.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
What did you think you wanted to do for a
career when you were in college.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I wanted to be a play by play broadcaster, So
that was the whole reason I went there. Was because
I grew up a big baseball and football fan. But
my favorite thing to do is listen to baseball on
the radio, specifically because radio broadcasters just have a different
style of doing the game. And I grew up in
the LA market, so I got to listen to Vin
Skelly my whole life growing up.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I wanted to be him.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And everybody in my family still thinks that that's what
I'm doing. There's a lot of them that still think that,
and they hope that I can do that one day,
but really it's such a different career path I'm on now.
But that was the whole point and so I got
in and I started doing radio play by play my
freshman year for our radio station, our student radio station
out there, and I did hockey, and I did softball
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and baseball and basketball, and.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I liked it.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It's hard, it's really really hard. It's a lot of
prep and it's a lot of work. And then eventually,
as I went on through school, I did a lot
of writing as well, and then that led to video editing,
and then I got to combine the two working for
the Dbacks as an intern, and so that's kind of
what led me into the game pres world.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
You minored in Criminal Justice, I did. We are both
big like CSI Law and Order fans, So am I? Okay?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Great?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
How accurate are those?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So I'm a big CSI guy.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
My favorite show growing up was the Vegas edition of CSI.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I'm a Miami Girl.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You're a Miami Girl in New York? Okay, yeah, okay,
well there we go. We have all three covered. There
you go. I'm sure a paramount plus loves us because
they're all in there. But I don't know how accurate
those shows are. Probably not very I don't know. I mean,
I think, because you know these things, some of these
things take a long time, Like you know, some of
the stories. When I was in school, I did cover
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some crime and stuff before I was doing sports stories.
And I mean a lot of the stuff I was covering,
you know, these guys were caught maybe ten years after
the crime, ten twenty years after the crime was committed,
and then you know, you watch follow up stories and
it takes five to ten years for them to get
sent sometimes and then an episode of these shows everything
happens in an hour, you know, or very quickly anyway,
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So probably not the most accurate, very dramatized, but yes,
I did minor in criminal justice yep.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
From graduation. It was year path to the forty nine
ers graduation.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I was interning with the Dbacks in the spring of
twenty seventeen when I graduated, so I strategically waited until
my senior year to intern with them because I knew
the internship existed back then. I still think they do this,
but back then they pulled half of their intern pool
for game pres from the Kronkite School. So I believe
they had like ten interns that year, and five of
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us came from ASU and the other five were from
various other community colleges or places around Arizona, and so
I wanted to do it when I graduated, so that
once I graduated, I still had about five or six
months worth of something to do, and I didn't have
to find a job right away. It just so happened
to be that that season, the d Backs were really
good and they made it all the way to the
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wild Card beat the Rockies and then played the Dodgers
in the Division Series and got swept. But it was
a good year of baseball up until that point in Arizona,
and it was really really fun to be part of
a postseason appearance for them and a win at home
in the Wildcard Game. That was when the Wildcard Game
was just a one game win, an en sort of deal,
and so it was a real Game seven type of
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atmosphere at Chase Field. So that was super cool. And
so from there I just started networking with people at
other places. The guy who produces games at ASU used
to work for the d Backs and he came in
for a visit. His name's Brett Osbrooks, and Brett gave
me a ton of opportunities after I graduated and after
the d Backs in Church event did, and I did
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football games and basketball games and baseball, and so that
carried me into the following year.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And so then in twenty eighteen, I.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Had worked for d Backs ASU and then I got
on with the Son's crew as well.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So then I was working with the Suns.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And then one of the gals who does expression, which
is our graphics playback for the d Backs, she was
working at the Cardinals at the time, and she said, Hey,
you know, they have an opportunity to go work for
the Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Would you want to do that?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
And so, long story short, there I got in with
the Cardinals crew, and so I did twenty eighteen and
twenty nineteen with the Cardinals as well down in Arizona.
And so during the twenty eighteen year, I freelanced for
every team. I got in with the Coyotes crew, and
I was just literally making my own schedule and freelancing
full time, which was great because I could work as.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Much or as little as I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I worked a lot, but I also made sure that
I was off during the days that I wanted to
be off, and I met a lot of people down there.
And then through all of that at the Cardinals, my
boss now Laura Johnson. Her sister Nina worked at the
Cardinals and was manager of all the expression graphics there,
and so I got to know LJA a little bit
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through Nina. During those those two seasons, I was with
Arizona and then stayed in touch. We did some stuff
over Zoom during the pandemic, and then I worked for
a production company based out of Phoenix doing virtual work
during the pandemic. Then I got a job with ASU
full time. So I went back to Sun Devil Athletics
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and worked there for a year, and it was during
that year that lj's sister Nina moved to the d Backs.
So during opening Day twenty twenty two, Nina was working
for the d Backs, LJ came out to visit and
I was working with the d Backs as a freelancer,
and our paths crossed and she gave me heads up
that there was a job opening, and so I applied
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and the rest of his history.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So that's how that happened.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Do you remember your first project when you first got
to the Niners.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yes, I can't forget my first project, the short lived
Golden Gateway.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Presented by Cisco.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah. Yeah, the short lived Hallway project. It took a
lot of time and it wasn't around for very long,
but we.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Did what to episode or two.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
We did what we did for total.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
One of them was a dry run. We used the
game as just a behind the scenes like run through.
The technology just wasn't there to make that one happen.
It wasn't for a lack of effort or a lack
of people who knew what was going on. It's just
that the technology really that we needed to do this
wasn't there, and the juice wasn't worth the squeeze, as
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we like to say.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
On that one, I thought it was interesting because I
would be in that hallway, yeah, and so I'd see
people and like they would see me. But it was
weird because I didn't I don't know who these people are,
and they're not there to see me. I'm just there
at you know, at a time in pregame where they're
waiting for the team to come out.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Well, the whole idea was.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
For this wasn't a public thing, so it wasn't like,
you know, the masses knew about this, but it did
go out in a press release, so I mean it
was public. It just wasn't something that a lot of
people got to experience. Pretty much nobody got to experience it.
But the idea was that, you know, when the players
came out through the player tunnel, before they got out
on the field, there would be fans and some monitors
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to like yell and pump them up and cheer them on,
and they can interact with them as they came out.
But what we found was a couple of things. One,
it's so loud and it's so dark and the lighting
is so crazy in there that it's really hard to see.
Second of all, the players are in like game mode,
so they're not really looking to interact with fans in
that moment because they're about to run out to seventy
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thousand plus people here at the stadium. And then three
you know, it was the idea was kind of like
sending folks to a breakout room in Zoom. So they're
watching a show in the main room and then we
send them to a breakout room which happens to be
one of these monitors. And then the other part of
all of this was we were building a pregame show
around it. So Lindsey and Michael Kennedy, who Michael's our
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in game one of our in game hosts. He co
hosted this pregame show with Lindsay. So on top of
all of this, we were building a thirty minute pregame show,
and so the audience would come in, watch the show,
and then get sent to the hallway and then come
back and it was time for kickoff. Which it all
sounds great in theory, and it just didn't practicality.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
It didn't work out.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
In general, what's the most challenging thing about your job?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I think, honestly, the most challenging thing is getting everybody
to row all together at the same time. I mean,
we have a game day crew of over two hundred
sixty seventy of them are here on game day, and
so during the week leading up to the game, we
are communicating with various folks about what's going on and
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how we're going to execute it. And then come game day,
it's getting everybody to get in line and figure it
out and do it together. And that's the most challenging part.
The technology is the technology. I mean, there's always going
to be challenges and issues with it that you have
to overcome. But you know, we do a really good
job of communicating with our crew, and our crew does
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a really good job of jumping in and tackling what
we ask them to do.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
But it's not easy.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
It's not easy for us, it's not easy for them
because a lot of these folks are freelancers who work
different gigs, and they may work for the Giants and
they may work for the Warriors and the Sharks, and
then they have to come over and figure out what
we're doing, and what we're doing is totally different from
everything else they're doing on a normal day to day basis.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So that's that's got to be the hardest part for sure.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
We know you set your three alarms to get up
in the morning, it's game day.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
What does your game day look like?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
We usually roll in about if it's a one thirty
game or one twenty five kick, we usually roll in
around seven am. And then we have sent our scripts
and rundowns out the day before, and we allow anybody
who has changes or requests changes to make changes before
seven o'clock. And so once the seven am window hits,
then I go and print everything out.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Well, there's a pregame meeting usually.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Around eight o'clock, just to go over with ops and
logistics about any last minute changes, and then we go
upstairs to the.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Control room and we start rehearsals.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
And rehearsals happen for about two hours on game day
with the crew down on the field right so it's
gold Rush, Niner, noise, sour dough.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Any halftime rehearsals.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
If we have a special halftime that requires a lot
of moving parts, will rehearse that anthem rehearsals, and so
that happens for about two hours, and then about ten
thirty we have a production meeting with the entire crew
to run through everything just one final time. There's any
last minute changes or questions, that's the opportunity to ask.
And everybody breaks for about half hour for lunch, and
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they grab lunch upstairs, and then everybody's back on ninety
minutes before the game, and that's when our pregame show starts.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
What's your favorite lunch item in the press box?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
So I don't actually eat a lot on game days.
That's the other thing. I don't really eat on game days.
So it's I don't I think I've had one meal
here in two seasons.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
No sleep, no eating, no, I'm just health down.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I'm coming in just in perfect condition. There's coffee. There's
some coffee.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Well, old machine, I am yeah, you got it down.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
No, it's I don't eat on purpose, and it's because
I'm stationary. I can't move, I don't get up. It's
like getting in a car and driving for six hours
without a bath and break. So I choose to not
eat just in case I don't want to have to
get up and run around and stuff. I'm stuck in
a place for so many hours in a row that
I don't want to now after the game, yes, I
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usually like first thing I find, I just kind of
scarf a couple of slices of pizza down or something.
So game days are the epitome of health.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Oh we just say that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
For those who don't know, you were also featured in
the NFL's twenty four Hours to kick Off series.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
They did it.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
You know, they do it across the leading They did
ours for Week five against the Cowboys.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Can you tell us a little.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Bit about that experience, and you know, you're so used
to being kind of behind the scenes, right, what it
was like to kind of get in front of the camera.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
It's weird, you know, when you have a producer asking
you questions and the cameras like right in your face,
and all of a sudden you have to think about
everything that you are just talking about meetings and stuff.
It's kind of easy to a certain degree, but it's
not easy to talk in front of a camera. So
anybody who does it for a living makes it look
really easy. That means they're really good at it, so
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to do it is super tough.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
But you know, it was it was an honor to
represent our department.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Like I said, there's a lot of people who make
game days possible and I'm a very very small piece
of it. But it was cool to, you know, see
it come together. I thought the league's crew did a
really good job of piecing that thing together. I was
super curious to see, like how that would come together.
But I thought they captured our pregame up until kickoff
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as best as they possibly could, and it looked really good.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
So that was fun.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
The difficult part for me was was that that was
in a stretch of three games in a row for us,
and we actually filmed the sit down part like a
week and a half or two weeks before the Dallas game.
So I had three games worth of information in my
head and I have to stop and go, wait a minute,
what are we doing for this game?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Am I talking about the right game?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And then some of the stuff at the time we
couldn't talk about because they were asking questions about our flyover,
which is a big point of emphasis on our pregame show,
and there was a looming government shutdown happening, so we
didn't know if we were gonna have a flyover, so
we had to film different takes about if we had
a flyover, if we didn't have a flyover.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
And then on game.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Days it was a real like the Office type of
thing where they had the crew following me around and
miked me up, and sometimes I'm talking to the producer,
sometimes I'm talking into the camera and showing them things,
and so it was like having the Office here in
real life, just following us around and doing our thing,
which was interesting.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
What's been your most memorable game day moment?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Oh man, I would say the win after Dallas last
year in the Divisional That was that was super cool.
That game was it was a really close game. For
those who don't remember, I mean we were in it.
We were behind, we were you know, it was closer
than I think people realize. And last season, I was
sitting in the in the front room, and we have
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two control rooms. We of have a front room in
a back room, and the front one faces out into
the stadium. This year, I'm in the back room, so
I don't get to hear the crowd react in real time.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
We have to hear it through the microphones.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
But to see that, see that game finish out, and
to hear the crowd and just the whole game, that
whole game was just electric here and it was awesome.
And then I think a lot of people realize that
and pick that up because there was a lot of
cool articles that came out about the home field advantage
that the Niners had during the playoff run last year
up until they went to the NFC game in Philly.
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But yeah, I think that was my favorite because it
was also like the end of my first season, and
it really like capped off the first year and to
see it go out on such a high was super
cool and it was a lot of work that led
up to that moment.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
So yeah, on that note, we are once again heading
into home playoff games here at Levice Stadium.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yep, what are you looking forward to?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I think there's just a different level to the fan
experience when it comes to playoffs. You know, our entertainment,
you know, amps up a lot. You know, everybody knows
that the stakes are a lot higher and that you know,
it's you know, win or go home for every game.
And now that we've secured home field advantage throughout with
the number one seed, we're we're you know, we can't
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be superstitious, and what we do we have to plan
ahead as if we're going to have two games here
at home, and so that's what we're doing, and hopefully
we do. We want to because we have a lot
of cool things that I can't talk about, but a
lot of cool things lined up that the fans I
think are really really going to get a kick out of.
And and it's gonna not only entertain them at the
level that it should, but it's also going to provide
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a great home field advantage for the guys in these
two potential playoff games here at home.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
So you know, the fans are really into it.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I mean, these are for sure, like you know, the
diehards that react to our prompts and they react at
the right times, and they help us create that advantage,
right because you know, if if they're not here, then
we just have flashing graphics and no noise, and it
doesn't mean anything. But those graphics and the music that
we play and the entertainment that we provide, it just
amps it all up. To have them here and to
(20:08):
have the faithful completely fill this place up, which is awesome.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Going back to your job, do you have advice for
someone who wants to.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Do what you do?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I think what I would tell somebody is one, you know,
be prepared to leave home, right because a lot of
these jobs are only in certain places. So if you
don't grow up in an area where these teams play
or where the stadiums are, like, most people that we
work with aren't from here.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
They're from somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
And so you have to be okay with being far
away from home and you know, away from family, and
and it's a lot of work, you know, it's we
don't work typical nine to five hours. We work nights, weekends,
holidays and other sports it's a lot more right. You know,
baseball has eighty one home games, hockey and basketball have
(21:03):
round forty and those all happen when people are off right,
because they're why they want the fans to come. They
want to do it on the days in which people
aren't working and at the times when they're not working.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
So but we are.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
So I think for a lot of people who are
looking to get into this, you know, college students and stuff,
I tell them the same thing, which is just you know,
you're not going to have normal working hours. You have
to be okay with that, and you're not going to
be able to do it always in the place that
you want to, but you can always work towards that.
And you know, we remind ourselves of that a lot
when we're here on the weekends. You know, there's weekends
(21:38):
we work here even when the team's on the road,
because early in the season we use those away games
to test a lot of the stuff here at the
stadium to make sure it's up and running and ready
to go when they do come home. So I think
for me this season, I've sat at home and watched
football like one or two weeks out of the whole year.
Otherwise we've been here working on home games. So it's
(22:01):
it's just one of those deals. And so I think
as long as you're okay with that and you're prepared
and know that going into it, then you'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
You have an intern this year, you guys are having
another intern next season. When you're looking at resumes or
in interviews, are there any red flags that immediately just
kind of pop off to you?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I mean, aside from the obvious ones like typos and
you know, grammatical mistakes and things. I think you know
the reason why I even say that is because this
job requires you to be very detail oriented.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I mean, we produce everything.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Everything you see here scripted, I mean for the most part,
but it's produced down to like the second, right, the
flyover coming over at the end of the national anthem
is a science. It's not you know, if it happens
right on time.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
It's a mix between luck and really really good preparing
and planning.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
But you know, we produce things down to the second,
and so you know, the PA copy has to be correct,
the timing has to be correct. We have to put
things up on the board that are correct. Like we
don't want to put typos up there. We don't want
to put like the wrong picture of somebody up there.
Like we have to put everything up there and it
has to be correct. And so you know, if you
(23:15):
really don't pay attention to those things, then you know,
how can we trust you to make things for us
that are going to be accurate? And so, I you know,
those are the things if you're able to be detail
oriented and you know, if you're if you're a good writer,
you know, if those are the things I look for,
because we're going to we may ask you to write
some things for us. We may ask you to produce
(23:35):
some things for us. And you know, the sky's a
limit really when you come in here and intern with us,
because we kind of just throw you into the fire
and say, here.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
We go, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And uh, if if you can't get those basic things right,
then that that really is.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
A red flag for sure.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Finally, Cody, the question that we always end with.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
As a listener, you'll know what's coming.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
You know what's coming.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I'm sure you have an answer prepared. Other duties as assigned.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Oh, it's my favorite line. It's my favorite line. And
the job description.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yeah, my other duties as assigned. I think that's so
hard for me to answer and to be honest with you,
I didn't even know what I was going to say
for this, because it's just this year in particular has
been a year in which that's kind of just been
our main our main job description. You know, how are
we going to We're a small department. How do we
(24:29):
make up for people maybe that we've lost or we're
still trying to hire or whatever the case may be.
So it's kind of like we jump in and we
just go around asking what do you need?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
What do you need? What do you need?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
And to be able to be a bit of a
Swiss Army knife means that you're going to do other
duties as assigned.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
We we build and take down the stages, and that's
something that you're not coming in here and just you know,
sitting at.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Your computer all day.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
There's days where we get down and get dirty, we
put the gloves on. And our entertainments ages where the
foghorn sits or where the DJs sit, I mean, we
help build all of those, we help take them down
at the end of the season. We help store all
this stuff, you know around the stadium, that's all of
our entertainment stuff. So that would probably be the one
where I sit here going yeah, other duties as assigned.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
That's got to be it.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
So well, Cody, thank you for joining us, especially going
into the division around. I know you're super busy, so
thank you so much for being on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I'm finally on it two years later, here we go.
Thank you guys. It was a lot of fun.
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