We're Talking Sports Ep. 7 - Manny Gomez

**Will** (0:34)
All right, good morning, good morning, everybody. Welcome to another edition of We're Talking Sports.

**Ron Arenas** (0:40)
That's right.

**Will** (0:40)
I'm here with my good buddy, Ron Arenas.

**Ron Arenas** (0:43)
Good morning.

**Will** (0:44)
How you doing, bud?

**Ron Arenas** (0:45)
I'm happy to be here. Thank you for keeping me on the show.

**Will** (0:48)
Well, you know.

**Ron Arenas** (0:49)
You didn't change the locks on the doors or anything, so I can still get in.

**Will** (0:52)
Not yet, not until I get my shirts back.

**Ron Arenas** (0:56)
Oh, okay, so I just have to keep the shirts.

**Will** (0:58)
Right?

**Ron Arenas** (0:58)
And I can keep showing up.

**Will** (0:59)
That's what we're talking about there, yeah. Hey man, so we got a great show lined up this morning now.

**Ron Arenas** (1:04)
We do.

**Will** (1:04)
We've got a friend of the program, right, sponsor.

**Ron Arenas** (1:08)
He's one of our sponsors, yeah.

**Will** (1:09)
Absolutely, Integrity Automotive and Diesel.

**Ron Arenas** (1:11)
That's right.

**Will** (1:12)
Well, we can take care of all of your automotive needs.

**Ron Arenas** (1:15)
That's right.

**Will** (1:15)
Everything, other than bodywork.

**Ron Arenas** (1:19)
Yeah.

**Will** (1:20)
But other than that, we got to take care of everything on there. It's getting hot out there.

**Ron Arenas** (1:24)
It is.

**Will** (1:24)
It's getting hot out there.

**Ron Arenas** (1:25)
I heard, I heard, yeah.

**Will** (1:27)
All right. And so those ACs in the car start going out, man. Bring them on down. We'll check them for free. Give you a free check on there. And don't ever forget, if you tell them, Will sent you, you get 10% off of any service.

**Ron Arenas** (1:40)
That's right. And for the automotive industry, you're not only looking at just the air conditioning, but your radiator to cool that engine down, all your belts, your tires, all that stuff is really affected with the heat. So it's something that, you want your family to have a safe vehicle while you're driving them around.

**Will** (1:59)
And don't even get me started on their tire deals, man. Well, we'll talk about that later.
That's something. Anyway, so let's welcome Mr. Manny Gomez. How are you, buddy?

**Manny Gomez** (2:08)
Good, good. Thanks for having me.

**Will** (2:10)
No, man, thank you for being on. So normally we bring him on and we talk, you know, we still can, you know, Choya High School Football, you know, where you, you're one of the coaches or what exactly?
What do you coach on there?

**Manny Gomez** (2:21)
Yeah, so with Choya, I coach the running backs, the inside linebackers, and I do the recruiting, coordinating.

**Will** (2:27)
Nice. Oh, nice.
Those are like my favorite positions that I never got to play.

**Manny Gomez** (2:33)
Definitely, definitely a lot of fun.

**Will** (2:35)
So yeah. Yeah, that's awesome. Good deal.

**Ron Arenas** (2:38)
Got some speed in there, you know?

**Will** (2:39)
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

**Ron Arenas** (2:41)
Hard hitting and speed.

**Will** (2:42)
You know, my eighth and ninth grade years, I got to play fullback.

**Ron Arenas** (2:45)
Okay, that's fun.

**Will** (2:47)
So that was fun.

**Ron Arenas** (2:47)
Yeah, that was fun.

**Will** (2:49)
Yeah, I made my tailback look like a hero, man, let me tell you.

**Ron Arenas** (2:53)
Well, yeah. Yeah, you punch that hole through the line.

**Will** (2:55)
Yeah.

**Ron Arenas** (2:55)
And then the tailback gets to run in and get the touchdown.

**Will** (2:58)
And then every once in a while, they actually hand you the ball.

**Ron Arenas** (3:01)
Yeah.

**Will** (3:01)
You know, they hand you the ball and you get those two or three yards.

**Ron Arenas** (3:03)
When you're on the goal line.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:04)
Yeah. Yeah.

**Will** (3:05)
So, you know, it was a good deal.

**Ron Arenas** (3:07)
Yeah.

**Will** (3:07)
Never coughed it up. So that's a good thing, right?

**Ron Arenas** (3:09)
Oh, yeah. Luke played fullback a little bit here and there in his junior and senior year.

**Will** (3:14)
Yeah. Luke, your son.

**Ron Arenas** (3:15)
Luke, my son. Yeah.

**Will** (3:16)
Yeah. Not Luke. Any other different Luke?

**Ron Arenas** (3:19)
Not any other Luke? No. No. No.

**Will** (3:21)
Luke Walton?

**Ron Arenas** (3:21)
No. No. No. I don't think Luke Walton played fullback. No.

**Will** (3:24)
All right. Luke, you're welcome to come on the show and let us know if you played fullback.
Anytime. Right? Yeah. Anyway, so we're going to talk a little bit here about another business that you have, Manny. Why don't you tell us a little bit about that?

**Manny Gomez** (3:39)
Yeah. So I'm a co-owner of Next Level Performance Lab. I own it with Ismail Mahdi, the former running back with U of A. A good friend of mine, he's coming back in Tucson here in July. We're really excited about that.