Oakland Arena

It's like they're contiguous.

If you ever went to the Oracle Arena where the Warriors played in the old...

The Coliseum.

Yeah.

Most fans, it's just having a nicer arena doesn't really do anything.

What percentage of fans in San Francisco would say, oh man, it's so much better now going to a game here at Chase Center than it was at Oracle Arena? Very few, I would say.

I mean, Oracle is a better experience in terms of just how loud it was and stuff.

But obviously Chase Center is, maybe people in San Francisco would say it's more convenient just to get to Chase Center, et cetera.

I have never been to Chase Center.

In fact, I've never been to Oracle either.

I've never been to a home Warriors game, but that is besides the point because today, today is for football.

We officially had our very first NFL Sunday.

But this is The Screaming Ab-Dabs, which was what Floyd was, one of their previous names before Pink Floyd.

This particular one is from 1977 at the Oakland Coliseum Arena.

And again, it doesn't even say it anywhere on here.

You have to kind of dig into Discogs Oh, no, it does say on the inside.

you learn in your reporting?

One thing I learned was that you can bring outside food into Oracle Arena.

No coolers or massive backpacks, but that's still pretty helpful because when I went to a Giants game during the summer, I spent $76 for just one person.

Yikes.

100%.

I feel like 10 years ago, where was I? I was at Oracle Arena in Oakland, and I was just a venue marketer like trying to make it in this world.

But now the amount of data and like the amount of detail is so much greater.

So I feel like you can really get- A detailed look of like who each individual fan is and like where they are in the life cycle.

That's great.

From, you know, from there, you know, you- you...

Let's walk me through your- your journey at- at Oracle Arena because you started off as an intern and then got, uh, hired, uh, as a grassroots, uh, uh, mark- with a marketing coordinator there, and then digital marketing, uh, senior marketing.

You kinda made your way up over a course of- of five years.

okay

and played there for three years we played in the auckland coliseum i played with fru mcmillan in the double and i think mike estep was playing in the I don't remember, but Betty Stove played and Francoise Dure played

the

ladies for San Francisco.

Yeah.

Well, you know, especially when you get in like the Chase Center, Oakland Arena, you know, Shoreline, you know, those sorts of places, they get very, very expensive.

It's a rarity in jazz for tickets to be that expensive.

I'm happy for them.