SignalsAZ.com Prescott News Podcast - In The Game: Bringing Fun Back to Prescott Valley

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

Send us a text and chime in!Looking for something fun to do in Prescott Valley? This episode is packed with exciting updates from In The Game!We sit down with Assistant General Manager Jonathan to talk about everything happening this season. From the return of Golf & Glow nights (complete with live DJs and glow-in-the-dark mini golf) to birthday parties, team bonding events, and exciting new community partnerships.#inthegame #prescottvalley #minigolf #glowinthedark Check out the CAST11.com Website at: https://CAST11.com Follow the CAST11 Podcast Network on Facebook at: https://Facebook.com/CAST11AZFollow Cast11 Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/cast11_podcast_network

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Signalsazey.com. I am joined here with, I'm going to try to get it right the first time, Jonathan Leninger. Yes, good job. Most people butcher it. Yeah, and I want to call you the assistant to the general manager. They're a little office humor in there, but you are the legit. A legit assistant general manager over at in the game. Yes. So super fun place to be. It is amazing. Yeah. Weather's turning. So you've got, I think the golfers will be coming around to do some of golf. excited for that. We actually are less than two weeks away officially. Well, for our sneak peak night is less than two weeks away. And then our big night is going to be two weeks from Friday. Okay. For our first big event of the year, which is going to be golf and glow, which is basically what it sounds like. It's glow in the dark golf. And what are the dates for that? So it starts off March 13th, and it's going to be every second and fourth Friday of the month.

Perfect. It's going to go 630 to 930. We're very excited. That is all my focus now. I just got back from a trip. All my focus now is just getting ready for that. and glow. Yes. It's, people are hesitant because of the way the outside is and the outside lights, but we're working with the amazing people over at the town center to get everything worked up and looking beautiful. Nice.

Nice. And then what else you got going on? With that, actually, we are going to have live DJ. We're going to have special redemption prizes, special food. We also have going on our big, we're always pushing in for birthdays and events. We actually can do a glow in the dark birthday if you'd like. Well, that's awesome.

We're also looking to buying out the park. buying out the golf course for charity funds and fundraisers. We have a big one coming up. I can officially announce this today. We have been in talks with the Eric Marsh Foundation. And the weekend before, which is going to June 26 to the 28th, we are doing an entire weekend dedicated. Well, most of the weekend is going to be dedicated to the Eric Marsh Foundation.

That's awesome. June 26th, Golf and Glow is going to be themed out towards them. June 27th, the town is doing the summer music festival, which is going to have a little theme around it. but June 28th is going to be our Sunday. It's going to be a huge day for this town center. We're going to do everything Eric Marshall Foundation. We just got the approval from NAZ Air,

so we're going to have helicopters flying in. We're going to have different emergency services. It's going to be amazing. We are so excited. We are looking to work more with the community. We just signed our contract with the Wranglers. So we're going to be having them coming and visiting our location. That's awesome.

So we're very, hanging out with the players. We're looking at different ways that we can, get them involved. We're going to have a booth up at the games. Every game, every home game. You're going to see an in-the-game booth where we give them away cards, play cards, and free mini-golf. So we passed out a ton of those cards.

My cheer team is part of the, they're the Mustang cheerleaders with the Wranglers and with stacks of those free play cards to hand out. So you guys always do a great job. We try and give back to the community and something we feel like was lacking a little bit with the previous management, because we're all new management there, is that not enough tie-ins with the community. That's important in a small town for sure. I've lived here on and off over 30 years.

And this town has given me so much. And I want to be able to start giving them back. And it's amazing to be having the opportunity to be in a position where I can finally do that. So that's why we're working with a bunch of charity funds. We are talking to the Yavapapai Humane Society about having adoption days at our mini-golf course. Don't do with it because I'm going to end up. I'm right across the street. That's right.

We got you. We'll get your new pet. I have four dogs. I'm going to end up with four more. That's okay. That's all right. Having more, you can never have enough dogs, I feel like.

I think that's true. Yeah. So we are, we're working with a lot right now. We just signed another contract of Little League, Pennsylvania Little League. So we're working on with them because they love to come in at the end of the season, have all their big parties.

So we're excited for that. The schools are coming in. They like to do like experiments at our location. So that will be happening as well. So if other schools want to get involved and bring their kids in for a day, let them play a little arcade while doing a little education of science experiments, everything in there, we're absolutely willing to do that. I need to do a team bonding night. Yes. Oh, absolutely.

And even I think if you're a business, what more, you know, fun, bring everybody down, do a couple rounds of golf. Yes, it would be awesome. It's great team bonding. We have the XD theater, which is a lot of fun. We have a new arcade, a few new games, but we have our arcade area that's a blast. I know my daughter just loves going running through her and smashing all the buttons every time she comes in. For those that have the littles, we have the big old play maze area that they can play in. And I don't think we talk about this enough because you touched on the food.

Your food is really good. Yeah, it's surprising because when you think about great food in the area, no one thinks about in the game. No. We do everything from scratch, which is awesome. Natchos are awesome. Our epic nachos. Nacho, awesome. Awesome nachos.

and big juicy burgers. Yes. Big old pizzas and chicken tenders and wings that are amazing. Very good. And there's beer. There is beer. We appreciate the adults need a little medicine to help get through the days of their children running around like crazy in the game.

That's how I sell it to my husband. I'm like, okay, grandbabies are doing a birthday party and in the game. We can pay, I think it's foosball that you guys have. And then it's, what do you get? Not foothball. The ski ball. Oh, air hockey. We have air hockey.

hockey and ski ball. And you can drink a beer while you're doing it. Yes, and you can enjoy yourself a beer. We have a few different beers on tap. We have liquor. We have wine. We kind of go for a little bit for everybody. So we don't just think about the kids.

We like to think about the parents as well. And you've got little play cards now. Yes. You're not shuffling around coins and all that stuff. The great thing is now is that we're all digital. No paper tickets, no quarters or tokens. No counting out a bunch of tickets. Yes.

It's like, this is what you have. We load it up on your play card and your tickets. Once you win tickets off a game, it gets automatically loaded to your card. And then you bring it up to our wonderful employees at the redemption desk. And they'll swipe out and see how many tickets you have. We're always getting a new redemption prizes. We have a bunch of Legos. We're looking into getting Pokemon cards.

That'll be a new one for us because that's huge. We have our big prizes as well. We're getting into kind of getting ready for the Mario movie coming up next month in April. Sorry, in April. And so we're getting new redemption prizes. We've got a giant Yoshi in our fantastic prize right now that really fits towards it. I mean, who doesn't love Yoshi? That's my favorite Mario character.

So we are always trying to embrace the new and go with the new stuff and see and listen to the people about what they want. I'm excited to be, you know, working closely with you. Absolutely. And promoting some of the cool stuff that you're doing. I was thinking about you guys for birthday party because there's just not a lot of places around here. No, there isn't. And we're always branching out in our birthdays. They're a lot of fun.

Come in, talk to our sales manager, Tara. Make it very easy. We do. You can look at the prices. You can even do stuff online, book everything online through our website in the game. In the Game,proskey Valley.net. Tara is always happy to have people come in and sit down and talk to her and hear a little fishbowl office that we call it. We have private event rooms upstairs or you can do it down in the dining room, whichever you prefer.

We have birthday, sorry, birthday captains that will help out with everything that you need. if you want to add food, we're always more common, always accommodating with that. And like I said, we do have the upgrade to do the glow and the dark birthday, which is, in my opinion, looks really amazing. If you, even if you don't have kids, come in, grab a beer. Yeah, it's a perfect date night. Yeah, it's a perfect location for a date night. It's not crazy loud either.

No, we try and keep things a little mild-mannered, but still exciting and fun. Golf and glow, I can say, will be a bit loud because we do have the live DJ. Matt and Alley, DJ services. I love them. Oh, they are amazing people. They would be coming out and DJing for us. So it's going to be a lot of fun. We're excited because Prescott Valley, Friday nights, you know, you have the bowling alley.

You have the movie theater. Other than that, you really don't have much. So in the game, we have always been there. But now we're trying to make it more exciting and more fun for Friday nights. If it gets busy, we will be doing it every Friday. So we're hoping people do come out, enjoy it. It's going to be fun. It's going to be fun.

We're not, actually, we're not raising our prices on everything. We do have family specials where you'll get like 200 credits, golf, wide-up cups, pizza, soda for $70. For a family of four. Family of four. Family of four. That's perfect. Because it's, I mean, go to the movie that you're spending more than that for family of four these days. So we're really excited.

We have the deal with Harkins right now where if you bring in your movie ticket, you get a $5 dollar credit, $5 game credit. So we are also working with deals with the Witt Ranglers starting in the season. When you bring in your tickets from the game, you'll get a $5 credit as well. Excellent. Well, I can sense, I feel your passion. I'm just talking to you. I can just see how excited you are about everything going on.

I think that's what you guys needed over there. Yes. You know, just sometimes we just seem to change things up a little bit. Absolutely. And as someone who's been here, like I said, for over 30 years, who remembers Castle Golf. That is my goal. That is what I want to reach to. remember the nights at Castor golf. I remember the New Zeve Knights at Castle Golf.

Sadly, we don't have the space for Indigo carts, which would be amazing or batting cages. But we are doing what we have, and we're always looking to add more and do new things to make it as fresh as possible. Awesome. Well, Jonathan, thank you so much. And we'll add all your events to the events calendar. If you guys have any questions, you can jot on over to in the game.net slash prescott. Slash pressure ballot, yes. Yep. I'm going to make sure you got the right one there. Come in, have some nacho. Any questions you can email me.

My email is jonathan. Dot Leninger at F-E-G-L-L-C.com or come in. I am there all the time. Jared, our GM, is there. And Tara, any of our amazing managers will always be there. More than happy to answer any questions you have. Awesome. Well, thanks what you're doing for the community.

The kids around, they always need stuff to do. So keep doing what you guys are doing. Awesome. Thank you so much. All right. We'll see you next time. Absolutely.