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You know, when we first started doing Last Call, my mom found it immediately.

So, thank you for being out there, Mom.

And all of the people tuned in on YouTube.

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Establishment called the Sports Bra is going to open, and they claim they're only going to show women's sports.

All right.

I just don't see this having a long shelf life.

I'm not being chauvinistic.

I'm just making a little judgment here.

That's all.

Caitlyn Clark doesn't play every game.

So, you know, but the numbers for the the WNBA, you can't they're in you can't dispute them.

I mean, it is in terms of of popularity.

I think that this is a it is an interesting name for it's probably not the name I would have gone with, but I don't have the money behind the, you know, so it's not my call.

But I think it's going to be I really think it's going to be a a big success.

I think that it's an untapped market.

I think that there are uh there are certainly a lot of people who like to gather together to root on their teams.

So I am I am encouraged and I really wish them all the best.

Well, I can see young men thinking this is the place to go to meet women because that's the main reason one of the main reasons young men go to bars.

True.

So if you think that there's going to be some women there and the one in Portland is very successful.

The reason that they are now opening franchises in four different cities across the US is that this thing was a juggernaut like people love to go there and it was super buzzy and you know I don't know I have a couple daughters that are really into sports and I think how great that somebody can make this concept work even if it only works in Portland.

I love that someone is trying because when I was a kid women's sports were never on TV.

It wasn't even an option that you could be the It was a punch.

It was a punch line.

It was It was a punch line.

But I think for this to be successful, like St. Louis is going to have to get a WNBA team because doesn't Portland have a WNBA team?

And they have a professional women's soccer team.

Yeah.

And and I I think J isn't Jason Tatum trying to get a WNBA.

Unfortunately, we were not uh that was not successful.

Um there is a women's basketball team that is playing here and finding some luck.

And we also have the Slooh women's basketball team.

I love going to their games.

I would watch that from a bar.

That's right.

All right.

So, as we uh head in more of last call, I hate dogs and I hate women.

Golly, I'm having a bad night.

And you love the gig account.

And I love the gig account.

The gig.

I hope I can keep my gig here after tonight.

Getting your revenge.

I am Jason.

Okay.

One of the most popular artists in America and the world right now is Kendrick Lamar.

And he spent the night in St. Louis.

Uh he was at the dome and our own of the five people sitting here right now, Jason was the one that was at the concert.

You want to give us a quick review?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I I am a Kendrick Lamar fan.

Um I I was sort of late in getting into them, but I got Good Kid Mad City and was just mesmerized by the narrative and also just just how good some of the songs were.

Um, I think it is a real boon for St. Louis that we got this concert.

We didn't get Taylor Swift, which I think is a blessing in disguise because she's overrated.

I know.

Oh, wow.

Oh, boy.

Okay, you took me off the spot.

Thank you.

But Kendrick Lamar is is probably the most popular musician in the world right now because he basically decimated Drake of the of Degrassi, the Next Generation fame.

Um, in in one of the best rap battles of of the last century or so.

Um, it was amazing seeing how many people went into this dome, which is usually not filled with a lot of things.

Um, the sound system I think may need a little bit of improvement.

maybe we could use $100 million of the Rams money to make sure that it's a little bit up to snuff.

But this was really big for St. Louis.

And it was also what I you know the it was a racially diverse crowd too.

You saw a lot of white people, a lot of black people, a lot of Latino people there.

I think Kendrick Lamar's um and also Siza, we didn't even mention the fact that St. Louis who is from St. Louis, she was incredible.

She is an incredible singer.

her like earpiece was actually malfunctioning, so she couldn't hear herself, but she was still singing really well.

Um, we should be really proud that we were one of the stops on this tour.

So, I'm going to just cut right in here.

I don't feel really proud that we were one of the stops on this tour.

I feel like, you know, these people are just going to go where there's the money.

It's great they came here.

I don't see this as as big for St. Louis.

I don't see it as as bad or small for St. Louis.

It does kind of answer a question that we talked about last week, which is what is even the point of having the dome?

There are certain artists who only want to play venues of this size and if we did not continue to maintain this what I like to call albatross, we wouldn't have gotten this concert.

So, it does kind of cut against some of us who are skeptical on spending more money for this thing.

You do want to get the big concert.

But, I will say again, I hadn't been in the dome since I went to one of the last Rams games and it was not a great stadium then.

It's probably it's probably worse now because there just hasn't been a lot of work done.

I know they're really to in in all in all seriousness, there is Rams money that is going to probably help the dome from the Rams settlement.

Um, but I think if we're going to get more events like this in the future, we have to invest in this or we need to like what you said Sarah, tear it down and put something better there.

But I don't know if it will be the size and it and and to have a facility of that size would cost like probably three to four billion dollars, which I don't really think is going to be a priority right now.

I I disagree with you.

I'm hurt when the big concerts don't come here.

I feel like that's like a testament that we aren't the city that we used to be.

Well, we are not.

And I know we're not, but I do.

There's a lot of acts that don't come here.

And then I think to myself like, man, you know, they're playing Kansas City.

They're playing this place and that place.

Some places that are extremely smaller than we are.

And that does kind of, you know, that does bother me.

Well, while the dome won't be filled on Sunday, our Battlehawks are playing for the conference championship and the right to go to the UFFL Championship game on the Saturday before Father's Day, I guess, which would be the 14th, which is also in St. Louis, because we draw so many fans that we were awarded the championship game.

Are is anybody here fired up about the Battlehawks and the big game on Sunday?

I take that as a no.

I do I do think that this is something that is great for St. Louis.

I think having this football team I have some friends that are huge fans.

I'm just not a football person, but it is apparently a great experience.

I was talking to one of their vice presidents.

They are working really hard on also making it a really good familyfriendly experience and their tickets are so reasonably priced compared to all the gouging that's going on in other sports.

I really love what these guys are doing.

I am rooting for them.

I will just be doing it from the comfort of my own.

My understanding is I think that the lease is more favorable than the Rams lease was because I don't think the dome or the convention center or the city was getting a lot of money from that.

Now granted there's not 60,000 people going to Battlehawks games, but it is one of the by far the most popular team of the 15,000 season ticket holders.

And and it's it's nice to have these uh games that are less than the NFL.

I mean, like the Slooh basketball or Slooh women's soccer, the Battlehawks, you you can be a fan and go to these games and I think it's all good.

And I hope the Battlehawks, you know, win the championship.

I watched a a documentary on about 25 30 minutes of a documentary about Vince McMahon.

I try to I try to watch Netflix documentaries about Yes.

about things that I would otherwise not be interested in just to expand the horizon.

And to see the numbers of people who show up for this kind of stuff is just it's like a different Well, I mean, it's like a different world.

We all know that there's like a world within a world out there in the US.

But as long as people I'm with you, Sarah, as long as people are having fun, you know, in St. Louis and getting behind something, then I'm I'm all for their success.

And there is actual tailgating.

All right.

Yeah, there's there is a buzz around the stadium outside of it when they play.

I think that's a good thing.

Um, they made them play a lot like two or three Friday night games.

I thought that was a mistake by the league itself.

But here's my concern.

29,000 average for St. Louis leads the league by far.

You've got Memphis drawing like their average was like 6,000 people.

Boy, I just don't know.

I don't think this league is going to hit.

All right.

And I will throw this out here.

I got a friend named Chris.

He said it to me.

St. Louis should try to become part of the Canadian Football League when this league goes down and be the United States representative in the Canadian Football League.

And I said, Chris, that actually makes some sense.

We do like the expose of Canadian football.

I love that.

That would be exactly Well, what happens when Canada becomes the 51st state?

That's right.

I think Greenland.

I think we got a greater chance of the Battlehawks playing in the NFL in Canada becoming the 51st state.

I also say this, I was getting a carry out uh in West County, not Chesterfield.

Uh but anyway, in West County, and I heard overheard them saying that they have to ramp up staff when the Battlehawks play.

Oh.

And I had no idea that this was actually leaving the downtown area and that people were going specifically to bars to see a Battlehawks game.

So, like I said, It's not the Rams, but you know, and if it's just us, make kids scoff, but hey, people are enjoying it, but we're not scoffing at you.

Thank you for joining us on Last Call.

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