Host: Sam Shad
Co-Host: Ray Hagar

Guests:
Tony Marini, Managing Director, and Chris Killian, President of the Board, Hot August Nights
Pundits:
Liz MacMenamin, Vice President, Retail Association of Nevada Susan Fisher, Principal, Fisher Consulting Howard Rosenberg, Professor of Art, UNR

"We knew we would get some feedback, but we had no idea the extent that we did get. "

- Chris Killian, President of the Board of Hot August Nights, describes the furor after the community learned that Reno’s most important event might be lost to Long Beach, California.