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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Way.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I parked in the back and walked through Macy's and
I felt like I was in a casino. I hadn't
been in the macy'son a while. Now they got mirrors,
they had it sounded like people were renting money and
there people were coming and asking me for perfume thing.
I'm like, I'm good, like, I'm okay, I'm okay. One
guy said, take it to your wife.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I said, been too many divorces there, he laughed. I
had a good time walking in.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, but it's real easy. You going through the food
court right there by a dog on a stick. You know,
you got to get yourself a dog on a stick
at yourself some of that lemonade. The lemonade is so
good at dog on a stick.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
By the way, Well, it's a day that you needed.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm kind of glad the dogs aren't playing at home
because it would be a hot, sweaty, but I know
they probably had some humidity. And Laura Lawrence Ye Paul
Paul Leffler said, it's once, Yes, that's a once lunch
once Kansas.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Well, this is the first of all over the place tours.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
C K and I are going to do that, and
I guess this is a first for me to simulcast
on two radio sessions at the same time. You do
your show at the same time I'm doing my show.
And we said, well, we're all we're gonna be talking
about president of state on Fridays before football games. And
we thought it was a good idea. We slept on it,
called each other and said, let's do this. I think
it's a great idea. Frisnoe State Friday. We're excited for
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this football season. I like the idea of going all
over the place. So I mean, we're gonna hit all
over the valley and have ourselves a good time. And
we're gonna do this on the Fridays right before your
Frisno State football Now, if I recall when I got
here about ten years ago, you've been here probably about.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Thirteen now or something like that.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Now, you weren't doing sports talk then, And how many
years was it ago that you because k of course,
for those that do not know that, listen to Power
Talkies the morning Guy. I'm b ninety five, But what
how many years ago do you start branching into sports?
Five years, five years ago? You're a busy man working
two formats, it's like that. Yeah, And I was gonna
ask you getting involved here locally. You're out on the
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field at Tresloe State. I'll hear you in the background
with Paul Leffler and coach. I'll hear you out there
during a you'reing a quarter break or something out there.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
That has to be a blast.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Now in front of all those people, because on the
radio you don't ever see how many people you're in
front of. What's that like with that stadium's roaring up?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
First of all, it's like a dream come true.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I mean, you've been going to Bulldog Stadium your entire life,
and then you get to get down there and you're
on the field and you're getting the crowd hyped up.
You're doing the world famous Fresno State chance. The energy
is electric. I mean you get to feel it instantly,
So I mean it just gives you that jolt, you know,
like sometimes we do our radio show. You have no
idea what people are thinking. If they're laughing, you can't
see their faces. But when you're on the field and
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you feel the energy right then right there, man, there's
nothing like being inside Bulldog Stadium. Or let me say
this again, Valley Children stadium. Please forgive me.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That's right speaking of that, talking with you about it,
and and Kenny the other day and Paul Leffler the
other day about all the talk with Shakira doing a
bringing in like two million dollars from out there inside
the market. And if you could clock a couple of
those a quarter, that's nice. But I think you guys
convinced me that now we're not gonna be building the
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Roman colisim in eight years a new one. But the
renovation concept of it is something. And as you were
telling me, we're gonna see it tomorrow in Kansas.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So the stadium that we're going to be playing in tomorrow,
half of it has been renovated. They're going through that process.
They say the other half of the stadium will be complete,
I want to say next year. But half of the
stadium is going to be renovated. Looks extremely nice, jumbo
tron once side of the field looks so real. I
give them props. It looks great. It's the best way
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of going about it without having to build a new stadium.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Private public partnership, as you educated me too. I guess
Daddy Warbucks back there, what was that check David Booth.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You'll see it three hundred million. His name is on
the stadium, all right. We gotta have big Daddy agg
out there.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Who's says somebody somebody, somebody with the onions.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Ay, But you know what, it's not how it looks,
it's how you play where you are.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And I what.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Paul Luffler was talking about is how Cochens has been
able to keep a lot of players.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Coming with the new world.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That rim when you first got into doing sports talk
five years ago, it was it hadn't kicked in, had
it No, it had likeness.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
You see it, and it's night and day. And Kenny
said something to me yesterday that just is gonna stick
with me. This is the new norm. And I was like,
you know, when I look at this game, I'm excited
for the Dogs. I don't really have high expectations because
there's a lot of new faces, whereas last year in
the year before that, I'm like, I know who's on
the team, I know what we're bringing to the table.
So I did have expectations. Kenny's like, this is the
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new norm for everyone. With the transfer portal with NIL,
we're gonna see a lot of new names. Faces, and
the reality of it is, this is just the beginning
of what Frisno State football may be looking like for
years to come.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And and it's funny how, somehow, how quickly in sports
we can recover from a down period after you know,
people wanted coach Skipper to you know, half weed and
half you know, it was a it was a moment.
Really wasn't a fun time, not a big winning season, right,
and but a lot of people wanted to give him
a chance. But you see how I hate to say
this for Skipper, but people move on.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, yeah, you got.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It, and there's excitement right now right hearing the coach
out there talking as well something else.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
No, I'm here's the thing I'll say. I was one
of those people that wanted to give Tim Skipper the opportunity.
I was like, you know what, he's done a good
enough job, especially coming in under the circumstances. You have
to remember that was not his football team. Jeff Tedford
left after spring after football season. Jeff Tedford actually did
the Mountain West football media days last year, So I
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mean that was not Skipper's team. But here's what I
will say. Matt Ence has done a great job of
winning over this valley, winning over the red Wave, getting
out there, being personable, meeting people throughout the valley. I
mean this guy, when I saw him at the Fresno
State football kickoff dinner, electric I like matt ense and
I think that this team is gonna play with matt
inc and his personality. If it's anything like what I
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saw at that Fresno State football kickoff dinner, watch out Kansas,
because this Fresno State football coming to play.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I've got to hear him speak twice out there. I
guess that's the room where all the players sit for pregame. Yeah, yeah,
with the little desk or big desk because they're big guys.
But hearing talk and it seems like if that was
his style with a team, I would like a coach
like that. He's very personable, but yet has that coach sternness.
That Marine Calichecki getting a helicopter, you know, kind of
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kind of vibe about him too, doesn't.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
He You could see the kid, well I was gonna
call him the kids. You can see the players want
to play for them. You could see that the players
are excited for what world do now to call you know,
I mean summer seventeen eighteen, I was like the kids,
but you know, they're grown men.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You know, they're man.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
They're gonna get out there and they're gonna play, and
with nil you have to expect it. You're like, well,
some of y'all are getting paid now, some of y'all
all getting paid, So I want to see what y'all
are getting.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Paid for now.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You can let the names be unknown, But have you
talked to any of the players, And I really haven't
because you're not really gonna do an interview about this, right,
But you know, the jealousy on a team because anytime
money comes into play, because the have nots with the haves.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I wonder what that does for a dynamic of a team. Well,
I think you have an expectation.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You look at this team and you say, well, whoever's
the starting quarterback, most likely they're gonna have the highest
NIL deal, followed by obviously your best defensive player, so
on and so forth. If you're a lineman, you're sitting
there thinking to yourself, at least give me a little something,
give me a little something to get by. But I
mean it's those plays of like the waiter tip and
the bus boy, yes, exactly. So Kenny Waker was talking
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about pay for play though, way right, you excel out
there ching ching, Okay, you don't, Well, you get your
basic right, But I mean, again, a lot of the
pay for play you have to imagine it is your
dynamic players, your running backs, your wide receivers, your quarterback,
your defensive back, someone that's gonna be intercepting and taking
it to the house. A linebacker that's gonna be able
to possibly do a pick six or even a fumble
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in return. I mean, those are the ones that are
gonna get the big bucks. So, I mean, that's kind
of what I'm saying. So if I look at this
Frison State football team, if I'm imagining who's getting the
big bucks, I'm looking at an EJ. Warner starting quarterback
QB one. I'm looking at some of the players that
are returning, maybe even like a Cam Broca who is
from Buchanan High School, meamed a captain this year, played
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so well until that energy to the interview, till the
injury took place last year. But I mean, I'll see
right now, I'm excited for this team. I'm excited to
see what they do.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Now I don't know how far you come along in
this process because the next home game will be next weekend.
But I'm gonna maybe assume at some point here you
might get to talk to mister Warner.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Kurt, Kurt, I want to well.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Okay, tell me if I'm right, I know you're the
sports of Ficonado here stocking groceries.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
He had a call and the Super Bowl. Yeah, I'm
remembering that right.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
No, it's a great story when you look at Kurt
Warner and everything that he's been through. I mean, this
was a guy that was in the Arena Football League
and he was stocking groceries to make ends meet. Next thing,
you know, he's a part of the fastest show on
turf and then went to the Arizona Cardinals and that's
where he went to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, that's something I feel like Shanta Claus here in August.
Look at the table in front of us here, right, Johnny,
tell them what they could win?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So many different prizes that we're giving away today. As
a matter of fact, if you're listening on the radio,
here's what I want you to do. If you're in
your car, get over to the fashion fair mall. If
you're not in your car. Maybe you're even picking up
your kids from school in the car listening. Get over
to the fashion fair mall because we're giving away Fresno
State hats, Fresno State t shirts, Fresno States inflatables, the
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inflatable mascot, seven foot led inflatable mascot. The sports station
is taking care of us.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
The flavor flav Bulldog logo. It is a big gold chain.
Yes as well. You can go ceks are out through
the food cart and hand right, you can go my route.
Park in the back parking lot, go through Macy's. Experienced
the casino effect, get some perfume little things, Ohanya, and
come in there and hang a right if you can
even figure out where the mall opening is with all
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the mirrors. Hey, during the one of the breaks, we'll
go experience at I want to see what you're talking about.
I'm like, where did you park?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Earlier before we went on live here, I was walking
around the sports station here right, I almost did a
really really womanish kind of grandmaish kind of thing. Or
any young mom or they got the little i mean
Dodger all the little baby outfits and like toddler uniforms. Uniforms. Man,
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it's in the back back there. I'll go show you
that as well if you haven't seen it. But look
at this hat collection.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I love it. If I won the lottery, that's I
would have one room that would look like that wall
right there of all those hats.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I'm looking at a couple of hats right now that
I may have to leave with, including that Green Bay
Packer hat. You know I'm a Packers fan. I see
a Fresno State hat that I got my eye on,
and of course I'm looking at some of these these
things that you could use for your man cave. Look
at that one right there, the Fresno State went at
the top left, the neons red wave, the neon right there.
That's beautiful Packers right there, front and center. I'm very
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excited about some of the things that you could get
inside the sports station today, and I'm even more excited
about the fact that we're gonna be allowing you to
get in here.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Play a little corn hole, corn dog hole.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
For the corn dog hole for the dog. I get
what you're saying, corn dog hole, Yes, do it for
the dogs, like go dogs. So if you can sink
two out of three. We'll start it with that one.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Now, no one is done.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Matter of fact, maybe when you saw me try, do
you want to try? I'll go try try all right.
So Trevor Carrey is gonna get up. He's gonna try
this right now. Two out of three is what he
has to get. Now, if he can get two out
of three, he's gonna be able to pick anything off
this table. Trevor Carrey, there he is lining up. He's
good to go. Oh miss the first one. Trevor Carrey
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for number two? Oh wait, number two? Okay, Now this
is the big one. This is the big one. He's
gonna angle from the side.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Oh okay.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Trevor Carrey has actually been the closest to get two
out of three. And man, that was just hanging by
a thread.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
You know, you know what I would have picked out
if I had won? What employees are ineligibleiheartmedia dot Com
and j hr uh the seven foot led lit infatable mascot.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I think that's right there.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
There's two album out here, right and you know what
all you have to do is bring the kids if
you want. They could try to go ahead and play
corn dog hole. If you want to try to play
corn dog Hole. We're gonna make that happen for you
as well some amazing prizes thanks to our friends at
the Sports station.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
And I love how Paul Lefler and coach give stories
about Bulldog history throughout the game.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
When you listen, I'm gonna copy them.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I'm gonna come back and I should have told you this,
by the way, but I'm gonna ask you your most exciting
Bulldog games. Okay, I've got about ten years in living here,
so I got a decade of memory. All right, We're
gonna come back with that. And who knows, maybe he's
gonna get lost in Macy's. Uh someonlem and David Tongapa
is gonna be stopping by this.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Well, he just called me right now. What he just
called me right now? He says, I'm stuck in traffic.
I'm two minutes behind, but he just called me, which
tells me he's parking right now, that he'll be here
telling so he should be here.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well, fine, tell him not be all right, don't get
lost in Macy's. Those mirrors, all right, sports throw let
him hey, let him hey, hey, move him up closer.
Give him the kid line right there?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
What's your name. What's his name?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Lucas? All right, Lucas, here, show him how to do it. Hey,
step up, play a game, you can win some pro
him on the kid line. Put a kid line right
up there in front. Now watch, he's gonna embarrass all
of us. I know.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Watch. Go ahead, Lucas, give it a throw. Throw it
in that hole right there.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Hey, another way. Hey, if he gets one in, he's
gonna win. You get one in, you win.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
He's like, Mom, I'm gonna do it the way I want. Oh,
all right, here we go. Come on, mom, howls Lucas.
Three years. Oh, and there's one more battle. There's one
more yep, here we go. Here for good behavior, good behavior.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I want him to hit this.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Yes, first winner of the day. Inside the sports station.
Come pick out the size. Come pick out a prize,
young man, Yes, step on up there. What do you
want Explain to him, Dad that that's a big inflatable mascot.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yes, it's seven feet tall. We got some We got
some hats. Can't hit the chain chain. Look, he's got dogs.
He's got his gold cross on. No dogould look with it. Oh,
he likes that beamie. He went from he likes that
Prisono State beanie right there. Hey, Lucas, congratulations being a winner.
Man there it is Lucas, Yes sir, yes sir.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
We're at the sports station right next to uh Macy's
Fashion Fair, mauls the Trevor Nation all over the place
tour right inside fashion Fair. We are at the sports station.
It's Trevor and c K and uh. We have some
winters right there during that break, sure did they. We
moved it up now to two out of four to
make it.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I think that's good. Yeah, because it's still difficult.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Now. Everybody that's throwing we're calling it not corn hole,
corn dot for the dogs corn dog hole. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Here's what I like about two out of four because
you could go ahead and throw a couple up there
and you could have them kind of hanging and then
you do that little quick slide and then once that
slide hits, both can go in.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
That's called skill.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
That's called were horn dog side Fashion Fair. Right here,
you can come through the food court, hang a right,
come through Macy's, hang a right. David Tonga Pa just
arrived from the parking lot. He said he left his
assembly job up in sack and had to go to
where'd you say, great Falls or something or someplace that
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looked like great falls.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Welcome David, Tonga Pae. It's always good to join you too.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
David's a good guy, he really is. You've said that
for a long time. When I first met him, I
ask about him with you, because I think you met
him first for football and all that, and you go.
When I heard that this guy, I go, a football
player is going to be running for the Assembly. And
then I realized that, well you started out politics with
Nathan Maxig. Mister tongy Paul, won't you give your little
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background for everybody that might not know.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Yeah, well, actually I met Supervisor Maxig from working with
Freesle State Football, and after we won the twenty eighteen
Mountain West Championship, the board wanted to recognize us, and
coach Tedford wasn't. He's not, That's not what he likes
to do. He likes to talk about football. He likes
to focus on football. So he sent one of the
older guys to go and get the board and the
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resolution and for us to get honored. I met Supervisor
Maxig right there and we just kind of stayed in
touch for almost two years and he brought me on.
He took a chance on me, So you know, I'm
always grateful for him, but I'm always grateful for Fresno
State as well for giving me those opportunities.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Everything that I have now post.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Fresno State football, you know, was really old open the
door because of what these opportunities have done. My job
where I get to serve the people of this community,
the connections that we've made, and I just I couldn't
be more grateful.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You're a current Assembly District supervisor mag Sick when you
work with him in his office as a lot of
that area that you currently are, but it's now much larger.
It's yeah, and have you seen some parts of California
you've never seen before.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I will say that Bridgeport is one of the most
beautiful portions in California in America actually, So if you've
ever been to the eastern side of the Sierras, it.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Is so beautiful. It's a lot flatter though then most
people think.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
If you take the three ninety five drive and you
just drive that backside of the eastern Sierras, you will
see some of the most beautiful parts of California that
most people don't even know.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
About Are you a mountain geisk I've never asked you that.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
You know what? I like going to the mountains, But
of course I like the city even more. I like
a bathroom that flushes. I'm not a camping one of
those things when if I got to put the spray
on in the mosquito and all that. Duh, I'm good. Yeah,
you know, I used to be a boy scout though,
so I'm not. I'm not opposed to going camping. I've
done camping, had a great time. It's just I choose hotels.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Same here I even though one said they go, oh,
it has bathrooms. Yeah, it's a stucco brick thing that
any snake could get in there and curl up. Got
any light bulb banging, no door on that, that guy,
not at all.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
I am a I could sleep in the back of
my truck. Actually do sleep in the back of my
truck a lot when I'm driving around, and I just.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Put a little bed back there.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
And just that's not when you're driving around though, you
mean after you stop driving around.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
After I get to you know, I tried to save
as much money as I can, and you know, my.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Trust slim and Patterson used to say he's sleep on
his boat and that's a little I guess more homeless
than the truck though, Yeah, Zimman, Patison tried to trust
taxpayers not covering them, right, man, if he's sleeping in
his truck, on the truck, I know. Here's what I
was saying.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I did sleep in the truck when I went camping
one time, and I thought it was the best place
to sleep.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah, that's right, because I was like.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You know what, if I'm going to be out here
in the woods, let me go ahead and sleep in.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
The truck bed. I don't want to in the truck. No,
centipede left nostril. I'm good. No, So what's that like?
Do you ever get.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
A young officer knocking on your door? Where's maybe I
shouldn't say where you park your truck sleeping? That's Have
you ever heard of Michael Jordan's dad? I have heard
of Michael. Yeah, but no for me, it's as Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I'm worried about you, man, worried, I really am. But
my district's size good. We'll start to go fund me.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Man, if you need just to get you a plate, No, no, no,
it's not it's not that bad.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
It's uh, but it's my district's the size of North Carolina,
so it's such a large district.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
It's a lot of the rural areas. For at least
we now know he's not corrupt.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
No, if he was leaping in hotels every night, yeah
that yeah, we know you're not that story right there.
Confirm not taking any bribe Money's a politician sleeping in
his Truck's that in your next campaign?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Take selfies of sleeping in the truck. Yes, this is how,
this is how I've devoted I am to you.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
But my truck is two years old and I just
broke ninety two thousand miles on it because we are
driving so much love and everyone.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Well your district, how far north does it go?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Calavera, So I'm about forty five minutes away from uh
Lake Tahoe on the top and forty five minutes away
from Vegas on the bottom.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
All right, Uh, We're gonna come back with I'm just
gonna call you David today because you're a football player,
David now to talk.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
About David gotta talk about his time with the dogs.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Now yours just your simile Montnga pa when I'm just
allows me to act official news talking.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
See, I gotta use those kind of terms.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
But out here I can just be David H Always
Presco State Days.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I'm gonna come back.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I'd like to know what's in the the head of
a football player man the night before the opening game
of the year to Trevor Nation all over the Place
Tour simulcast with c K on Sports Fox Fox Sports
thirteen forty. We're rolling on from the sports station and
right inside Fashion Fair. Well, you know what my mom
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recently has been Stop watching that.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
We're not doing it.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Remember grand Master flash the message my mom was doing
that you can see the game of the Sugar Ray fight.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
That rap, that old school rap. I was born in
ninety five. I know you're a.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Football player in the locker room. He knew Bobby Brown
though he knew Bobby Brown. Yeah, we won't go into
that story. That was really funny. I gave a real
life story using the words in that raping conversation as
if my mom watched too much TV and it's not healthy.
All my children at daytime, Dallas at night and my
dad can't even see the game of the Sugar If When.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I said that, you said, I knew I was. At first,
I was like, your mom watching too much TV? What
are you talking about.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
We're at the uh, we're at the headquarters of sports station. Uh.
I don't want to encourage any smashing drivers, but this
has to be like millions of dollars worth of stuff.
And look at all this. Man, this is incredible. This lineup,
a whole wall of hats. And I like that old
Hank Aaron Atlanta hat. I spotted that, yeah, white, that's
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the front one.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I'm excited for a lot of the gear that's in
here because I mean some of these are priceless. The
Montana jersey, the Rice jerseys, got price tag?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You want?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I mean, oh, it has a price tag? I mean
even right behind me there's a tiger Woods What is that?
A Tiger Woods funko pop? Incredible?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I don't know I'm seeing yeah, no, it's ready. Oh
I see all right?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, I mean it's it's almost like you can't take
it all in with just a few looking arounds here.
It's if you're a sports fanatic, this would be the
the heaven of that.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Going on top of that, I believe they're doing deals
on Fresno State gear right now while we're broadcasting. So
as long as the show is going on to like
what six o'clock, you can come to down here to
the sports station inside the fashion fair mall and get
discounted Fresno State gear.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, or if you I'm gonna get some if you
sink two or four corn dog holes, we got it
free right here too.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Whilst wild supply slats.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
We have our guests here a similar and David tonguypat
he was, of course Frozel State twenty eighteen when that
when you.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Departed titles my last year twenty eighteen tied in.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I remember you telling me the stories as a kid
hiking the ball over and over and over and over
to get it in the wheel well of your dad's
truck or something in the driveway. Yep, to get it
right in that little section that was the punter's hand yep.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
That was exactly. Well were you long snapping? I was
doing both. I was long snapping and it was a center.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
So that was heavy as a child. That was a
very heavy child and so portly would you say, yeah, Well,
I mean I was actually I weighed more in the
sixth grade than I do right now. I've been the
same size since I was since the eighth grade. But yeah,
I was about two hundred and ten pounds two hundred
actually almost two when I was in the sixth grade,
and now I was six foot.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
So did you just start playing starts or did you
put the little debbies down?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
What happened? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Well, I'm Tongin, I'm Polynesian, and so we're naturally fairly large.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So it six grade, you think you were on your
way to be in a sumo wrestler.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
I was, you know, I actually hadn't played sports. I
was actually competition shooting. So I like to hunt guns.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, okay, so that was my to grow up out
skirts somewhere.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Uh my dad has property in Redding, and so we
would always go up there and clean it. And he
actually got it on a police oxen auction seizure and
won it on a bid.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
So for cheap up there.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Now, if you've grown up around him, I didn't. I
growing up in the South in Texas, we didn't have
My dad had my granddaddy's pistol when he was chief
of police and it was in the closet somewhere. Now,
all my family would shoot guns. I'd see it around there.
But then't it funny when you're around somebody that's never
been around them, how they go. They act like you
just pulled out the Buboni plague if you have a
gun or something legally. You know, I don't understand that reaction.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Oh yeah, it's actually kind of crazy. You know, I've
been around it. It's a tool. I mean, it's almost
like being afraid of a toaster when somebody is afraid
of a gun. So it's very weird that type of
mindset that people should really, you know, just learn how
to utilize their tools, just like all other tools, and
they shouldn't be afraid of it.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
All right, we'll segue back in from guns, which is
I guess, are you an athlete? If you're a target shooter?
It's like is a race car driver an ATHLETEK? What
do you think is a race car driver an athlete?
I don't think a golfer is an athlete. Wrong, I'm
just saying, And I like golf. Magic will tell you
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I like golf. He golfs shooting. I just you're not
if you play the way I play one throw per hole.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I look at it and I think that there's certain
things that are skills. I think shooting is a skill,
and I think that golfing is a skill. But it
doesn't take the same athleticism that it takes to play football,
baseball or basketball.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
What do you know how far they drive that ball? Okay, okay,
let me ask you.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
This man shooting and that does not take athleticism.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Okay, okay, Ie hand contact. There's eye hand contact baseball,
eye eyeball contact.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Golf video games. What's the difference baseball golf eye hand contact? Boom?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, because you're going to you're gonna have to run.
Oh okay, You're gonna have to run. So they'd be
athletes if they ran to the next shot. Do you
know you're gonna have to run, You're gonna have to
be physical, You're gonna have to get out there. There's
times you may have to run over a catcher or
you have to slide.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
In a second, let's go West Coast, David, you're on,
But David, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Well, I could see a three hundred pounds man do
a bunch of flips off of a backboard, but I'm
not gonna call him a diver.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
You know that it takes a skill to do what
all these sports taking skills.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
But there's a certain amount of athleticism you need and
to be good at.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
It is what makes you athletic. Okay, to be good
that is good. Like even race car driving. I'm like, bro,
you're driving left, all right.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
But if a bunch of guys are playing on the
blue courts somewhere around here, you're not calling them basketball players.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
They're playing basketball, right, Okay.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I'm sure you're gonna say tennis or tennis people are athletes,
will you? I do think competitive Chinese ping pongers, same deal,
scaled down.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yes, yes, you know what.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I've played ping pong and I've sweated, so I'm gonna
say yes.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Okay, so do you if you're sweating, then you're an athlete.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Well no, because there's gonna be some people out there
playing golf right now like I'm sweating.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Hey, bro, you're not a golfer though, what I think?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
I think the little baby needs his seven foot inflatable
mascot here?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Did they throw yet? And they won? They won? So
you're walking up a winner.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I had no idea I was gonna tell dad to
go look, they got it.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
They got it.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
This is what you can win a seven foot inflating
that's the best prize.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Congratulations, man, I did it twice. It lights up at nights.
Wait and he doesn't work for David did win?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I made it twice and you guys got hey, hey,
he's sleeping in the truck. He needs some free stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
It's my guard dog. Yeah yeah, yeah, put that.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
No, my own break in with that crazy looking inflatable
mascot in the middle of the night. There. Uh, that's great,
hey man, I'll tell you we're giving away a whole
lot here. David, let me ask you about game night
before the opening of course the Bulldogs in which it's
game it is game week, but the night before is
always the night before it all culminates.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Were you a quiet person?
Speaker 6 (28:35):
I was never I've never been a quiet person. I
don't think a politician would be too good in their
job if that was happening. But the night before we'd
always get together.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
We'd have dinner. It's like family dinner, is what we
called it.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Coaches made it to take some of them. Sometimes they
take away our phones and they just ask us to
just talk to each other, go over your playbook, hang
around and you're just hanging out at the locker room
and you're really just building team. And it was actually
it was my favorite day was the day before the
game day because we would just get together at a
roundtable and I'd always talk politics. There was a coach
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that we had opposite, very far opposites, but we could
talk to each other and everybody for some reason, just
like watching us some of the other guys. We'd make
bets and they play and then we'd get to learn
about each other too. That way, when you go into
game day, you're not just going in with a teammate,
you're going in with a brother and a family member.
Coach Tedford would talk about it to us. He'd prepare us,
and he'd make sure that when you're about to start
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playing in this game that if you do your one
eleventh and you buy into it and you focus, everybody
else does their one eleventh, you will win as long
as you take care of your job and you do
it at a high level.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Did you have trouble sleeping?
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Yeah, I always had trouble sleeping the day before. I
think a lot of us did. But they would they
would always give us these cherry drinks and yeah, yeah,
they give us cherry. They'd give us multiple things so
that way we could take it to help us go
to bed so we could recover.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
They'd car blow us too, cherry drink that made you
go to sleep, little Bill Cosby.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Then they wouldn't be able to play well the next day.
They would even remember little a little bit o. But
you know what, that's funny that he says the cherry drink.
You can actually buy the cherry tart shots at the
grocery store exact, and it tells you to.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Sleep. Yeah, it helps to sleep, So that's interesting. And
then that would help us sleep.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
And then you try to get me and you carbload
and you're ready to go in the morning, and then
you got walked through.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
And so but the day before is just a day
to really just calibrate yourself. You traveled.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
If it's a far far game, like if you're going
to the East coast, you probably leave on a Thursday,
but if you're going just somewhere in the Midwest, you
leave on Friday morning. So the team's just there probably
today in Kansas, and so relaxing.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Is it a noticeable big mindset difference playing at home
and playing on the.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Road like massive.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Well the data shows that too, so it's sixty forty
sixty percent of the time the home team wins, so
there is a home field advantage. You're not in the
locker room that you know, you're not familiar with it.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I'll tell you this. What was one come up.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
And the crew at one thirty tomorrow pregame Paul Leffler
coach Chill cam more l two thirty and the kickoff
at three point thirty. Thank you so much for your time.
David otherwise known as a similarm in David tonguy pot
now winning that Assembly seat up there as well?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
And what is it? Can Republicans? Can you now fild
the baseball team? Where are we at? There's nine of you?
Speaker 6 (31:28):
They can actually field the baseball team with tin sub
on the sub on the Senate side.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
But in the Assembly we've got twenty of us.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Oh twenty okay, yep, well then okay, there you go.
You can do half a football team.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Yeah, yeah, we've got to get to twenty seven so
and then we'll break the super majority.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Are you having fun though doing it? Because you know,
when you try something new and you do it for
a little while, then you kind of get to see
what it was, some of the luster wears off, you
get to see some of the I guess maybe dark
sides sometimes of Sacramento politics.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Well, the thing that I love doing is serving, so
whenever I can serve, whenever I can work, and when
it comes to Fresno State too, you know, to go
back and make sure that I'm fighting for the resources
that our central valley deserve as well. And we actually
had to do that with the Shakier concert. You know,
I couldn't be more grateful for the leadership at Fresno
State reaching out to me, trying to help out with
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some state regulation issues, some problems that were there, and
we were able to get that cleaned up because look
at how the community benefited from Bulldog Stadium, from Valley
Children Stadium, from the amount of economic impact that it's
done too.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
And this is all behind the scenes. David Tungabaut did
all this.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
No no, no, no, no, David did all this, all
of it.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
He's the reason secure and said share it's David.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
The only thing that I want to make sure is
that we're bringing back the opportunity to this area. And
I wasn't even able to go to the concert because
I had another work event.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Than you're a hustler out there. Let me tell you
that why it never been done before a concert like that.
That stadium has been around since before what day was born?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Or yeah, yeah, been around before that.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Well that's this is a good thing though, about what
that opportunity has done for that concert to s out
for Fresno to show up. Now, just put the Central
Valley on the map for more and larger venues and
more people are sorry, larger attractions to really come here,
whether it's you know, maybe Taylor Swift one day, maybe
I can get more.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
We can almost guarantee your promoter zero rain, Yeah we can.
So you know when they try and do outdoor Vince
and other parts, I mean, we we might have some
meat and we know what time of the year that's
gonna be.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
But yeah, well Luke Brian was here in Clovis and
so but now we've just made sure that the largest
venue in the Central Valley is right here at Fresno State.
And we can support our athletes, we can support our
university and why not Fresnoy.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Wabn Wallen walking down the ramp where the Frisno State
football players walk down.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Okay, would be amazing.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
You do you know who I want as his entourage
on that? I would love to have of Aaron Judge,
Paul George, Derek Carr, Deavante Adams, Ryan Matts.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Okay, that's a that's a lot.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Well, but where a team bringing the name down, that'd
be amazing down because those guys, those guys are the
ones who built the stadium too, so they deserve some
of the credit.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Will walking and DeVante Adams is walking down with him.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Well, and all the Bulldogs who helped build this this
stadium and help keep this movement forward. It's up to
the community. I mean, I've always told people that athletics
is so impactful. It's such community driven in this area.
Even the gangs named themselves after it. I mean, this
place is culture for this entire community.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
A liquor store named after it.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
And there's a liquor store named after it, and so
we can buy into that and then we can take
this place. Because I always say, why does Tuscaloosa that
has a population of less than one hundred thousand people
have that type of ability cemetery and we have one
point one million people here in the Central Valley, and
we can't do in just Presno County. So why can't
we be the Alabama of California. Why can't we be
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the Kansas of California. Why can't we be that? Why
why in just four counties in this fifty mile region
we have more people than the entire state of Nebraska.
Why can't that be us here? Why can't we take
the next step? And I'm saying we can. And now
we have the leadership in place, We've got the coaches
in place, We've got the buying in place.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
We just got to keep on moving.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
We need a little That Green Bay fever c case
favored NFL team, how they show up Green Bay?
Speaker 6 (35:24):
What Aaron Mosby's on the team there, Williams and Evan
graduated from here too, so he's still our guy.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Is it Clovis bigger than Green Bay? Almost? I think
it is?
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, About one hundred and thirty five thousand
people is in Clovis right now, so one hundred it's
a major city. But you know, and it was funny
when we would travel across the country, people would ask
us like, oh, you from a small, small part of California.
Since you're not from La or San Francisco. And I said, well,
relatively small to us. It's your biggest city in your
entire state. Because they say small town, they're talking about
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two thousand people. We say small town, we're talking about
one hundred and fift thousand people like Clover.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
This is the Trevor carry Show on the Valley's Power
Talk
Way.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I parked in the back and walked through Macy's and
I felt like I was in a casino. I hadn't
been in the macy'son a while. Now they got mirrors,
they had it sounded like people were renting money and
there people were coming and asking me for perfume thing.
I'm like, I'm good, like, I'm okay, I'm okay. One
guy said, take it to your wife.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I said, been too many divorces there, he laughed. I
had a good time walking in.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, but it's real easy. You going through the food
court right there by a dog on a stick. You know,
you got to get yourself a dog on a stick
at yourself some of that lemonade. The lemonade is so
good at dog on a stick.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
By the way, Well, it's a day that you needed.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm kind of glad the dogs aren't playing at home
because it would be a hot, sweaty, but I know
they probably had some humidity. And Laura Lawrence Ye Paul
Paul Leffler said, it's once, Yes, that's a once lunch
once Kansas.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Well, this is the first of all over the place tours.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
C K and I are going to do that, and
I guess this is a first for me to simulcast
on two radio sessions at the same time. You do
your show at the same time I'm doing my show.
And we said, well, we're all we're gonna be talking
about president of state on Fridays before football games. And
we thought it was a good idea. We slept on it,
called each other and said, let's do this. I think
it's a great idea. Frisnoe State Friday. We're excited for
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this football season. I like the idea of going all
over the place. So I mean, we're gonna hit all
over the valley and have ourselves a good time. And
we're gonna do this on the Fridays right before your
Frisno State football Now, if I recall when I got
here about ten years ago, you've been here probably about.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Thirteen now or something like that.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Now, you weren't doing sports talk then, And how many
years was it ago that you because k of course,
for those that do not know that, listen to Power
Talkies the morning Guy. I'm b ninety five, But what
how many years ago do you start branching into sports?
Five years, five years ago? You're a busy man working
two formats, it's like that. Yeah, And I was gonna
ask you getting involved here locally. You're out on the
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field at Tresloe State. I'll hear you in the background
with Paul Leffler and coach. I'll hear you out there
during a you'reing a quarter break or something out there.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
That has to be a blast.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Now in front of all those people, because on the
radio you don't ever see how many people you're in
front of. What's that like with that stadium's roaring up?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
First of all, it's like a dream come true.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I mean, you've been going to Bulldog Stadium your entire life,
and then you get to get down there and you're
on the field and you're getting the crowd hyped up.
You're doing the world famous Fresno State chance. The energy
is electric. I mean you get to feel it instantly,
So I mean it just gives you that jolt, you know,
like sometimes we do our radio show. You have no
idea what people are thinking. If they're laughing, you can't
see their faces. But when you're on the field and
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you feel the energy right then right there, man, there's
nothing like being inside Bulldog Stadium. Or let me say
this again, Valley Children stadium. Please forgive me.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That's right speaking of that, talking with you about it,
and and Kenny the other day and Paul Leffler the
other day about all the talk with Shakira doing a
bringing in like two million dollars from out there inside
the market. And if you could clock a couple of
those a quarter, that's nice. But I think you guys
convinced me that now we're not gonna be building the
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Roman colisim in eight years a new one. But the
renovation concept of it is something. And as you were
telling me, we're gonna see it tomorrow in Kansas.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So the stadium that we're going to be playing in tomorrow,
half of it has been renovated. They're going through that process.
They say the other half of the stadium will be complete,
I want to say next year. But half of the
stadium is going to be renovated. Looks extremely nice, jumbo
tron once side of the field looks so real. I
give them props. It looks great. It's the best way
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of going about it without having to build a new stadium.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Private public partnership, as you educated me too. I guess
Daddy Warbucks back there, what was that check David Booth.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You'll see it three hundred million. His name is on
the stadium, all right. We gotta have big Daddy agg
out there.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Who's says somebody somebody, somebody with the onions.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Ay, But you know what, it's not how it looks,
it's how you play where you are.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And I what.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Paul Luffler was talking about is how Cochens has been
able to keep a lot of players.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Coming with the new world.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That rim when you first got into doing sports talk
five years ago, it was it hadn't kicked in, had
it No, it had likeness.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
You see it, and it's night and day. And Kenny
said something to me yesterday that just is gonna stick
with me. This is the new norm. And I was like,
you know, when I look at this game, I'm excited
for the Dogs. I don't really have high expectations because
there's a lot of new faces, whereas last year in
the year before that, I'm like, I know who's on
the team, I know what we're bringing to the table.
So I did have expectations. Kenny's like, this is the
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new norm for everyone. With the transfer portal with NIL,
we're gonna see a lot of new names. Faces, and
the reality of it is, this is just the beginning
of what Frisno State football may be looking like for
years to come.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And and it's funny how, somehow, how quickly in sports
we can recover from a down period after you know,
people wanted coach Skipper to you know, half weed and
half you know, it was a it was a moment.
Really wasn't a fun time, not a big winning season, right,
and but a lot of people wanted to give him
a chance. But you see how I hate to say
this for Skipper, but people move on.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, yeah, you got.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It, and there's excitement right now right hearing the coach
out there talking as well something else.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
No, I'm here's the thing I'll say. I was one
of those people that wanted to give Tim Skipper the opportunity.
I was like, you know what, he's done a good
enough job, especially coming in under the circumstances. You have
to remember that was not his football team. Jeff Tedford
left after spring after football season. Jeff Tedford actually did
the Mountain West football media days last year, So I
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mean that was not Skipper's team. But here's what I
will say. Matt Ence has done a great job of
winning over this valley, winning over the red Wave, getting
out there, being personable, meeting people throughout the valley. I
mean this guy, when I saw him at the Fresno
State football kickoff dinner, electric I like matt ense and
I think that this team is gonna play with matt
inc and his personality. If it's anything like what I
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saw at that Fresno State football kickoff dinner, watch out Kansas,
because this Fresno State football coming to play.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I've got to hear him speak twice out there. I
guess that's the room where all the players sit for pregame. Yeah, yeah,
with the little desk or big desk because they're big guys.
But hearing talk and it seems like if that was
his style with a team, I would like a coach
like that. He's very personable, but yet has that coach sternness.
That Marine Calichecki getting a helicopter, you know, kind of
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kind of vibe about him too, doesn't.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
He You could see the kid, well I was gonna
call him the kids. You can see the players want
to play for them. You could see that the players
are excited for what world do now to call you know,
I mean summer seventeen eighteen, I was like the kids,
but you know, they're grown men.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You know, they're man.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
They're gonna get out there and they're gonna play, and
with nil you have to expect it. You're like, well,
some of y'all are getting paid now, some of y'all
all getting paid, So I want to see what y'all
are getting.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Paid for now.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You can let the names be unknown, But have you
talked to any of the players, And I really haven't
because you're not really gonna do an interview about this, right,
But you know, the jealousy on a team because anytime
money comes into play, because the have nots with the haves.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I wonder what that does for a dynamic of a team. Well,
I think you have an expectation.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You look at this team and you say, well, whoever's
the starting quarterback, most likely they're gonna have the highest
NIL deal, followed by obviously your best defensive player, so
on and so forth. If you're a lineman, you're sitting
there thinking to yourself, at least give me a little something,
give me a little something to get by. But I
mean it's those plays of like the waiter tip and
the bus boy, yes, exactly. So Kenny Waker was talking
(07:32):
about pay for play though, way right, you excel out
there ching ching, Okay, you don't, Well, you get your
basic right, But I mean, again, a lot of the
pay for play you have to imagine it is your
dynamic players, your running backs, your wide receivers, your quarterback,
your defensive back, someone that's gonna be intercepting and taking
it to the house. A linebacker that's gonna be able
to possibly do a pick six or even a fumble
(07:53):
in return. I mean, those are the ones that are
gonna get the big bucks. So, I mean, that's kind
of what I'm saying. So if I look at this
Frison State football team, if I'm imagining who's getting the
big bucks, I'm looking at an EJ. Warner starting quarterback
QB one. I'm looking at some of the players that
are returning, maybe even like a Cam Broca who is
from Buchanan High School, meamed a captain this year, played
(08:15):
so well until that energy to the interview, till the
injury took place last year. But I mean, I'll see
right now, I'm excited for this team. I'm excited to
see what they do.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Now I don't know how far you come along in
this process because the next home game will be next weekend.
But I'm gonna maybe assume at some point here you
might get to talk to mister Warner.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Kurt, Kurt, I want to well.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Okay, tell me if I'm right, I know you're the
sports of Ficonado here stocking groceries.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
He had a call and the Super Bowl. Yeah, I'm
remembering that right.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
No, it's a great story when you look at Kurt
Warner and everything that he's been through. I mean, this
was a guy that was in the Arena Football League
and he was stocking groceries to make ends meet. Next thing,
you know, he's a part of the fastest show on
turf and then went to the Arizona Cardinals and that's
where he went to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, that's something I feel like Shanta Claus here in August.
Look at the table in front of us here, right, Johnny,
tell them what they could win?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So many different prizes that we're giving away today. As
a matter of fact, if you're listening on the radio,
here's what I want you to do. If you're in
your car, get over to the fashion fair mall. If
you're not in your car. Maybe you're even picking up
your kids from school in the car listening. Get over
to the fashion fair mall because we're giving away Fresno
State hats, Fresno State t shirts, Fresno States inflatables, the
(09:36):
inflatable mascot, seven foot led inflatable mascot. The sports station
is taking care of us.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
The flavor flav Bulldog logo. It is a big gold chain.
Yes as well. You can go ceks are out through
the food cart and hand right, you can go my route.
Park in the back parking lot, go through Macy's. Experienced
the casino effect, get some perfume little things, Ohanya, and
come in there and hang a right if you can
even figure out where the mall opening is with all
(10:02):
the mirrors. Hey, during the one of the breaks, we'll
go experience at I want to see what you're talking about.
I'm like, where did you park?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Earlier before we went on live here, I was walking
around the sports station here right, I almost did a
really really womanish kind of grandmaish kind of thing. Or
any young mom or they got the little i mean
Dodger all the little baby outfits and like toddler uniforms. Uniforms. Man,
(10:31):
it's in the back back there. I'll go show you
that as well if you haven't seen it. But look
at this hat collection.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I love it. If I won the lottery, that's I
would have one room that would look like that wall
right there of all those hats.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I'm looking at a couple of hats right now that
I may have to leave with, including that Green Bay
Packer hat. You know I'm a Packers fan. I see
a Fresno State hat that I got my eye on,
and of course I'm looking at some of these these
things that you could use for your man cave. Look
at that one right there, the Fresno State went at
the top left, the neons red wave, the neon right there.
That's beautiful Packers right there, front and center. I'm very
(11:07):
excited about some of the things that you could get
inside the sports station today, and I'm even more excited
about the fact that we're gonna be allowing you to
get in here.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Play a little corn hole, corn dog hole.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
For the corn dog hole for the dog. I get
what you're saying, corn dog hole, Yes, do it for
the dogs, like go dogs. So if you can sink
two out of three. We'll start it with that one.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Now, no one is done.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Matter of fact, maybe when you saw me try, do
you want to try? I'll go try try all right.
So Trevor Carrey is gonna get up. He's gonna try
this right now. Two out of three is what he
has to get. Now, if he can get two out
of three, he's gonna be able to pick anything off
this table. Trevor Carrey, there he is lining up. He's
good to go. Oh miss the first one. Trevor Carrey
(11:53):
for number two? Oh wait, number two? Okay, Now this
is the big one. This is the big one. He's
gonna angle from the side.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Oh okay.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Trevor Carrey has actually been the closest to get two
out of three. And man, that was just hanging by
a thread.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
You know, you know what I would have picked out
if I had won? What employees are ineligibleiheartmedia dot Com
and j hr uh the seven foot led lit infatable mascot.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I think that's right there.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
There's two album out here, right and you know what
all you have to do is bring the kids if
you want. They could try to go ahead and play
corn dog hole. If you want to try to play
corn dog Hole. We're gonna make that happen for you
as well some amazing prizes thanks to our friends at
the Sports station.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
And I love how Paul Lefler and coach give stories
about Bulldog history throughout the game.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
When you listen, I'm gonna copy them.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I'm gonna come back and I should have told you this,
by the way, but I'm gonna ask you your most exciting
Bulldog games. Okay, I've got about ten years in living here,
so I got a decade of memory. All right, We're
gonna come back with that. And who knows, maybe he's
gonna get lost in Macy's. Uh someonlem and David Tongapa
is gonna be stopping by this.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Well, he just called me right now. What he just
called me right now? He says, I'm stuck in traffic.
I'm two minutes behind, but he just called me, which
tells me he's parking right now, that he'll be here
telling so he should be here.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well, fine, tell him not be all right, don't get
lost in Macy's. Those mirrors, all right, sports throw let
him hey, let him hey, hey, move him up closer.
Give him the kid line right there?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
What's your name. What's his name?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Lucas? All right, Lucas, here, show him how to do it. Hey,
step up, play a game, you can win some pro
him on the kid line. Put a kid line right
up there in front. Now watch, he's gonna embarrass all
of us. I know.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Watch. Go ahead, Lucas, give it a throw. Throw it
in that hole right there.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Hey, another way. Hey, if he gets one in, he's
gonna win. You get one in, you win.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
He's like, Mom, I'm gonna do it the way I want. Oh,
all right, here we go. Come on, mom, howls Lucas.
Three years. Oh, and there's one more battle. There's one
more yep, here we go. Here for good behavior, good behavior.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I want him to hit this.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Yes, first winner of the day. Inside the sports station.
Come pick out the size. Come pick out a prize,
young man, Yes, step on up there. What do you
want Explain to him, Dad that that's a big inflatable mascot.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yes, it's seven feet tall. We got some We got
some hats. Can't hit the chain chain. Look, he's got dogs.
He's got his gold cross on. No dogould look with it. Oh,
he likes that beamie. He went from he likes that
Prisono State beanie right there. Hey, Lucas, congratulations being a winner.
Man there it is Lucas, Yes sir, yes sir.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
We're at the sports station right next to uh Macy's
Fashion Fair, mauls the Trevor Nation all over the place
tour right inside fashion Fair. We are at the sports station.
It's Trevor and c K and uh. We have some
winters right there during that break, sure did they. We
moved it up now to two out of four to
make it.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I think that's good. Yeah, because it's still difficult.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Now. Everybody that's throwing we're calling it not corn hole,
corn dot for the dogs corn dog hole. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Here's what I like about two out of four because
you could go ahead and throw a couple up there
and you could have them kind of hanging and then
you do that little quick slide and then once that
slide hits, both can go in.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
That's called skill.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
That's called were horn dog side Fashion Fair. Right here,
you can come through the food court, hang a right,
come through Macy's, hang a right. David Tonga Pa just
arrived from the parking lot. He said he left his
assembly job up in sack and had to go to
where'd you say, great Falls or something or someplace that
(15:49):
looked like great falls.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Welcome David, Tonga Pae. It's always good to join you too.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
David's a good guy, he really is. You've said that
for a long time. When I first met him, I
ask about him with you, because I think you met
him first for football and all that, and you go.
When I heard that this guy, I go, a football
player is going to be running for the Assembly. And
then I realized that, well you started out politics with
Nathan Maxig. Mister tongy Paul, won't you give your little
(16:16):
background for everybody that might not know.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Yeah, well, actually I met Supervisor Maxig from working with
Freesle State Football, and after we won the twenty eighteen
Mountain West Championship, the board wanted to recognize us, and
coach Tedford wasn't. He's not, That's not what he likes
to do. He likes to talk about football. He likes
to focus on football. So he sent one of the
older guys to go and get the board and the
(16:38):
resolution and for us to get honored. I met Supervisor
Maxig right there and we just kind of stayed in
touch for almost two years and he brought me on.
He took a chance on me, So you know, I'm
always grateful for him, but I'm always grateful for Fresno
State as well for giving me those opportunities.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Everything that I have now post.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Fresno State football, you know, was really old open the
door because of what these opportunities have done. My job
where I get to serve the people of this community,
the connections that we've made, and I just I couldn't
be more grateful.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You're a current Assembly District supervisor mag Sick when you
work with him in his office as a lot of
that area that you currently are, but it's now much larger.
It's yeah, and have you seen some parts of California
you've never seen before.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I will say that Bridgeport is one of the most
beautiful portions in California in America actually, So if you've
ever been to the eastern side of the Sierras, it.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Is so beautiful. It's a lot flatter though then most
people think.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
If you take the three ninety five drive and you
just drive that backside of the eastern Sierras, you will
see some of the most beautiful parts of California that
most people don't even know.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
About Are you a mountain geisk I've never asked you that.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
You know what? I like going to the mountains, But
of course I like the city even more. I like
a bathroom that flushes. I'm not a camping one of
those things when if I got to put the spray
on in the mosquito and all that. Duh, I'm good. Yeah,
you know, I used to be a boy scout though,
so I'm not. I'm not opposed to going camping. I've
done camping, had a great time. It's just I choose hotels.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Same here I even though one said they go, oh,
it has bathrooms. Yeah, it's a stucco brick thing that
any snake could get in there and curl up. Got
any light bulb banging, no door on that, that guy,
not at all.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
I am a I could sleep in the back of
my truck. Actually do sleep in the back of my
truck a lot when I'm driving around, and I just.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Put a little bed back there.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
And just that's not when you're driving around though, you
mean after you stop driving around.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
After I get to you know, I tried to save
as much money as I can, and you know, my.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Trust slim and Patterson used to say he's sleep on
his boat and that's a little I guess more homeless
than the truck though, Yeah, Zimman, Patison tried to trust
taxpayers not covering them, right, man, if he's sleeping in
his truck, on the truck, I know. Here's what I
was saying.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I did sleep in the truck when I went camping
one time, and I thought it was the best place
to sleep.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah, that's right, because I was like.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You know what, if I'm going to be out here
in the woods, let me go ahead and sleep in.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
The truck bed. I don't want to in the truck. No,
centipede left nostril. I'm good. No, So what's that like?
Do you ever get.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
A young officer knocking on your door? Where's maybe I
shouldn't say where you park your truck sleeping? That's Have
you ever heard of Michael Jordan's dad? I have heard
of Michael. Yeah, but no for me, it's as Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I'm worried about you, man, worried, I really am. But
my district's size good. We'll start to go fund me.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Man, if you need just to get you a plate, No, no, no,
it's not it's not that bad.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
It's uh, but it's my district's the size of North Carolina,
so it's such a large district.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
It's a lot of the rural areas. For at least
we now know he's not corrupt.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
No, if he was leaping in hotels every night, yeah
that yeah, we know you're not that story right there.
Confirm not taking any bribe Money's a politician sleeping in
his Truck's that in your next campaign?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Take selfies of sleeping in the truck. Yes, this is how,
this is how I've devoted I am to you.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
But my truck is two years old and I just
broke ninety two thousand miles on it because we are
driving so much love and everyone.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Well your district, how far north does it go?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Calavera, So I'm about forty five minutes away from uh
Lake Tahoe on the top and forty five minutes away
from Vegas on the bottom.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
All right, Uh, We're gonna come back with I'm just
gonna call you David today because you're a football player,
David now to talk.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
About David gotta talk about his time with the dogs.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Now yours just your simile Montnga pa when I'm just
allows me to act official news talking.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
See, I gotta use those kind of terms.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
But out here I can just be David H Always
Presco State Days.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I'm gonna come back.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I'd like to know what's in the the head of
a football player man the night before the opening game
of the year to Trevor Nation all over the Place
Tour simulcast with c K on Sports Fox Fox Sports
thirteen forty. We're rolling on from the sports station and
right inside Fashion Fair. Well, you know what my mom
(21:06):
recently has been Stop watching that.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
We're not doing it.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Remember grand Master flash the message my mom was doing
that you can see the game of the Sugar Ray fight.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
That rap, that old school rap. I was born in
ninety five. I know you're a.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Football player in the locker room. He knew Bobby Brown
though he knew Bobby Brown. Yeah, we won't go into
that story. That was really funny. I gave a real
life story using the words in that raping conversation as
if my mom watched too much TV and it's not healthy.
All my children at daytime, Dallas at night and my
dad can't even see the game of the Sugar If When.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I said that, you said, I knew I was. At first,
I was like, your mom watching too much TV? What
are you talking about.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
We're at the uh, we're at the headquarters of sports station. Uh.
I don't want to encourage any smashing drivers, but this
has to be like millions of dollars worth of stuff.
And look at all this. Man, this is incredible. This lineup,
a whole wall of hats. And I like that old
Hank Aaron Atlanta hat. I spotted that, yeah, white, that's
(22:14):
the front one.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I'm excited for a lot of the gear that's in
here because I mean some of these are priceless. The
Montana jersey, the Rice jerseys, got price tag?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You want?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I mean, oh, it has a price tag? I mean
even right behind me there's a tiger Woods What is that?
A Tiger Woods funko pop? Incredible?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I don't know I'm seeing yeah, no, it's ready. Oh
I see all right?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, I mean it's it's almost like you can't take
it all in with just a few looking arounds here.
It's if you're a sports fanatic, this would be the
the heaven of that.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Going on top of that, I believe they're doing deals
on Fresno State gear right now while we're broadcasting. So
as long as the show is going on to like
what six o'clock, you can come to down here to
the sports station inside the fashion fair mall and get
discounted Fresno State gear.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, or if you I'm gonna get some if you
sink two or four corn dog holes, we got it
free right here too.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Whilst wild supply slats.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
We have our guests here a similar and David tonguypat
he was, of course Frozel State twenty eighteen when that
when you.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Departed titles my last year twenty eighteen tied in.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I remember you telling me the stories as a kid
hiking the ball over and over and over and over
to get it in the wheel well of your dad's
truck or something in the driveway. Yep, to get it
right in that little section that was the punter's hand yep.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
That was exactly. Well were you long snapping? I was
doing both. I was long snapping and it was a center.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
So that was heavy as a child. That was a
very heavy child and so portly would you say, yeah, Well,
I mean I was actually I weighed more in the
sixth grade than I do right now. I've been the
same size since I was since the eighth grade. But yeah,
I was about two hundred and ten pounds two hundred
actually almost two when I was in the sixth grade,
and now I was six foot.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
So did you just start playing starts or did you
put the little debbies down?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
What happened? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Well, I'm Tongin, I'm Polynesian, and so we're naturally fairly large.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So it six grade, you think you were on your
way to be in a sumo wrestler.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
I was, you know, I actually hadn't played sports. I
was actually competition shooting. So I like to hunt guns.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, okay, so that was my to grow up out
skirts somewhere.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Uh my dad has property in Redding, and so we
would always go up there and clean it. And he
actually got it on a police oxen auction seizure and
won it on a bid.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
So for cheap up there.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Now, if you've grown up around him, I didn't. I
growing up in the South in Texas, we didn't have
My dad had my granddaddy's pistol when he was chief
of police and it was in the closet somewhere. Now,
all my family would shoot guns. I'd see it around there.
But then't it funny when you're around somebody that's never
been around them, how they go. They act like you
just pulled out the Buboni plague if you have a
gun or something legally. You know, I don't understand that reaction.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Oh yeah, it's actually kind of crazy. You know, I've
been around it. It's a tool. I mean, it's almost
like being afraid of a toaster when somebody is afraid
of a gun. So it's very weird that type of
mindset that people should really, you know, just learn how
to utilize their tools, just like all other tools, and
they shouldn't be afraid of it.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
All right, we'll segue back in from guns, which is
I guess, are you an athlete? If you're a target shooter?
It's like is a race car driver an ATHLETEK? What
do you think is a race car driver an athlete?
I don't think a golfer is an athlete. Wrong, I'm
just saying, And I like golf. Magic will tell you
(25:37):
I like golf. He golfs shooting. I just you're not
if you play the way I play one throw per hole.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I look at it and I think that there's certain
things that are skills. I think shooting is a skill,
and I think that golfing is a skill. But it
doesn't take the same athleticism that it takes to play football,
baseball or basketball.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
What do you know how far they drive that ball? Okay, okay,
let me ask you.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
This man shooting and that does not take athleticism.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Okay, okay, Ie hand contact. There's eye hand contact baseball,
eye eyeball contact.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Golf video games. What's the difference baseball golf eye hand contact? Boom?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, because you're going to you're gonna have to run.
Oh okay, You're gonna have to run. So they'd be
athletes if they ran to the next shot. Do you
know you're gonna have to run, You're gonna have to
be physical, You're gonna have to get out there. There's
times you may have to run over a catcher or
you have to slide.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
In a second, let's go West Coast, David, you're on,
But David, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Well, I could see a three hundred pounds man do
a bunch of flips off of a backboard, but I'm
not gonna call him a diver.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
You know that it takes a skill to do what
all these sports taking skills.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
But there's a certain amount of athleticism you need and
to be good at.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
It is what makes you athletic. Okay, to be good
that is good. Like even race car driving. I'm like, bro,
you're driving left, all right.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
But if a bunch of guys are playing on the
blue courts somewhere around here, you're not calling them basketball players.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
They're playing basketball, right, Okay.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I'm sure you're gonna say tennis or tennis people are athletes,
will you? I do think competitive Chinese ping pongers, same deal,
scaled down.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yes, yes, you know what.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I've played ping pong and I've sweated, so I'm gonna
say yes.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Okay, so do you if you're sweating, then you're an athlete.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Well no, because there's gonna be some people out there
playing golf right now like I'm sweating.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Hey, bro, you're not a golfer though, what I think?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
I think the little baby needs his seven foot inflatable
mascot here?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Did they throw yet? And they won? They won? So
you're walking up a winner.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I had no idea I was gonna tell dad to
go look, they got it.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
They got it.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
This is what you can win a seven foot inflating
that's the best prize.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Congratulations, man, I did it twice. It lights up at nights.
Wait and he doesn't work for David did win?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I made it twice and you guys got hey, hey,
he's sleeping in the truck. He needs some free stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
It's my guard dog. Yeah yeah, yeah, put that.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
No, my own break in with that crazy looking inflatable
mascot in the middle of the night. There. Uh, that's great,
hey man, I'll tell you we're giving away a whole
lot here. David, let me ask you about game night
before the opening of course the Bulldogs in which it's
game it is game week, but the night before is
always the night before it all culminates.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Were you a quiet person?
Speaker 6 (28:35):
I was never I've never been a quiet person. I
don't think a politician would be too good in their
job if that was happening. But the night before we'd
always get together.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
We'd have dinner. It's like family dinner, is what we
called it.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Coaches made it to take some of them. Sometimes they
take away our phones and they just ask us to
just talk to each other, go over your playbook, hang
around and you're just hanging out at the locker room
and you're really just building team. And it was actually
it was my favorite day was the day before the
game day because we would just get together at a
roundtable and I'd always talk politics. There was a coach
(29:09):
that we had opposite, very far opposites, but we could
talk to each other and everybody for some reason, just
like watching us some of the other guys. We'd make
bets and they play and then we'd get to learn
about each other too. That way, when you go into
game day, you're not just going in with a teammate,
you're going in with a brother and a family member.
Coach Tedford would talk about it to us. He'd prepare us,
and he'd make sure that when you're about to start
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playing in this game that if you do your one
eleventh and you buy into it and you focus, everybody
else does their one eleventh, you will win as long
as you take care of your job and you do
it at a high level.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Did you have trouble sleeping?
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Yeah, I always had trouble sleeping the day before. I
think a lot of us did. But they would they
would always give us these cherry drinks and yeah, yeah,
they give us cherry. They'd give us multiple things so
that way we could take it to help us go
to bed so we could recover.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
They'd car blow us too, cherry drink that made you
go to sleep, little Bill Cosby.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Then they wouldn't be able to play well the next day.
They would even remember little a little bit o. But
you know what, that's funny that he says the cherry drink.
You can actually buy the cherry tart shots at the
grocery store exact, and it tells you to.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Sleep. Yeah, it helps to sleep, So that's interesting. And
then that would help us sleep.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
And then you try to get me and you carbload
and you're ready to go in the morning, and then
you got walked through.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
And so but the day before is just a day
to really just calibrate yourself. You traveled.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
If it's a far far game, like if you're going
to the East coast, you probably leave on a Thursday,
but if you're going just somewhere in the Midwest, you
leave on Friday morning. So the team's just there probably
today in Kansas, and so relaxing.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Is it a noticeable big mindset difference playing at home
and playing on the.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Road like massive.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Well the data shows that too, so it's sixty forty
sixty percent of the time the home team wins, so
there is a home field advantage. You're not in the
locker room that you know, you're not familiar with it.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I'll tell you this. What was one come up.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
And the crew at one thirty tomorrow pregame Paul Leffler
coach Chill cam more l two thirty and the kickoff
at three point thirty. Thank you so much for your time.
David otherwise known as a similarm in David tonguy pot
now winning that Assembly seat up there as well?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
And what is it? Can Republicans? Can you now fild
the baseball team? Where are we at? There's nine of you?
Speaker 6 (31:28):
They can actually field the baseball team with tin sub
on the sub on the Senate side.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
But in the Assembly we've got twenty of us.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Oh twenty okay, yep, well then okay, there you go.
You can do half a football team.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Yeah, yeah, we've got to get to twenty seven so
and then we'll break the super majority.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Are you having fun though doing it? Because you know,
when you try something new and you do it for
a little while, then you kind of get to see
what it was, some of the luster wears off, you
get to see some of the I guess maybe dark
sides sometimes of Sacramento politics.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Well, the thing that I love doing is serving, so
whenever I can serve, whenever I can work, and when
it comes to Fresno State too, you know, to go
back and make sure that I'm fighting for the resources
that our central valley deserve as well. And we actually
had to do that with the Shakier concert. You know,
I couldn't be more grateful for the leadership at Fresno
State reaching out to me, trying to help out with
(32:20):
some state regulation issues, some problems that were there, and
we were able to get that cleaned up because look
at how the community benefited from Bulldog Stadium, from Valley
Children Stadium, from the amount of economic impact that it's
done too.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
And this is all behind the scenes. David Tungabaut did
all this.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
No no, no, no, no, David did all this, all
of it.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
He's the reason secure and said share it's David.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
The only thing that I want to make sure is
that we're bringing back the opportunity to this area. And
I wasn't even able to go to the concert because
I had another work event.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Than you're a hustler out there. Let me tell you
that why it never been done before a concert like that.
That stadium has been around since before what day was born?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Or yeah, yeah, been around before that.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Well that's this is a good thing though, about what
that opportunity has done for that concert to s out
for Fresno to show up. Now, just put the Central
Valley on the map for more and larger venues and
more people are sorry, larger attractions to really come here,
whether it's you know, maybe Taylor Swift one day, maybe
I can get more.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
We can almost guarantee your promoter zero rain, Yeah we can.
So you know when they try and do outdoor Vince
and other parts, I mean, we we might have some
meat and we know what time of the year that's
gonna be.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
But yeah, well Luke Brian was here in Clovis and
so but now we've just made sure that the largest
venue in the Central Valley is right here at Fresno State.
And we can support our athletes, we can support our
university and why not Fresnoy.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Wabn Wallen walking down the ramp where the Frisno State
football players walk down.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Okay, would be amazing.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
You do you know who I want as his entourage
on that? I would love to have of Aaron Judge,
Paul George, Derek Carr, Deavante Adams, Ryan Matts.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Okay, that's a that's a lot.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Well, but where a team bringing the name down, that'd
be amazing down because those guys, those guys are the
ones who built the stadium too, so they deserve some
of the credit.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Will walking and DeVante Adams is walking down with him.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Well, and all the Bulldogs who helped build this this
stadium and help keep this movement forward. It's up to
the community. I mean, I've always told people that athletics
is so impactful. It's such community driven in this area.
Even the gangs named themselves after it. I mean, this
place is culture for this entire community.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
A liquor store named after it.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
And there's a liquor store named after it, and so
we can buy into that and then we can take
this place. Because I always say, why does Tuscaloosa that
has a population of less than one hundred thousand people
have that type of ability cemetery and we have one
point one million people here in the Central Valley, and
we can't do in just Presno County. So why can't
we be the Alabama of California. Why can't we be
(35:00):
the Kansas of California. Why can't we be that? Why
why in just four counties in this fifty mile region
we have more people than the entire state of Nebraska.
Why can't that be us here? Why can't we take
the next step? And I'm saying we can. And now
we have the leadership in place, We've got the coaches
in place, We've got the buying in place.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
We just got to keep on moving.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
We need a little That Green Bay fever c case
favored NFL team, how they show up Green Bay?
Speaker 6 (35:24):
What Aaron Mosby's on the team there, Williams and Evan
graduated from here too, so he's still our guy.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Is it Clovis bigger than Green Bay? Almost? I think
it is?
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, About one hundred and thirty five thousand
people is in Clovis right now, so one hundred it's
a major city. But you know, and it was funny
when we would travel across the country, people would ask
us like, oh, you from a small, small part of California.
Since you're not from La or San Francisco. And I said, well,
relatively small to us. It's your biggest city in your
entire state. Because they say small town, they're talking about
(35:57):
two thousand people. We say small town, we're talking about
one hundred and fift thousand people like Clover.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
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