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Rex Thompson, DonnyBrooke Fight Promotions · Aired Out

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Speaker 2: I know school is is starting up. The words back
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Speaker 2: so good. It's so exciting, though, at least it is
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Speaker 2: for my little girl. For me, I wasn't a big
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Speaker 2: fan of the whole back to school. Those were three buzzwords.
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Speaker 2: It just wasn't a huge fan of. But she's so excited.
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Speaker 2: It's great to meet the new teachers and see the
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Speaker 2: new classrooms and this smell ough back to school. Good morning, everybody.
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Speaker 2: I hope you're off to a good start. Forecast sixty
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Speaker 2: two degrees right now in the Granite City. We're looking
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Speaker 2: at partly sunny skies around seventy three today, pretty good tonight,
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Speaker 2: partly cloudy fifty five. We do have a little bit
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Speaker 2: of wet weather that's possibly gonna be moving and looks
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Speaker 2: like Wednesday tomorrow Courier Park should be in the clear.
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Speaker 2: At this point partly sunny and eighty degrees is the
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Speaker 2: official word. But Thursday, and I know that's thunder Road Day,
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Speaker 2: rain showers and thunderstorms eighty one for the high and
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Speaker 2: it looks like those showers and thunderstorms at this point
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Speaker 2: are going to be continuing into Thursday night. So I'm
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Speaker 2: not canceling anything or making any announcement that the racing
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Speaker 2: is not gonna happen. I'm just saying, don't be surprised
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Speaker 2: if you're a big fan of thunder road because that's
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Speaker 2: what Mother Natures send in our way. Friday looks like
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Speaker 2: clouds and sun both in the mix, rain showers also
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Speaker 2: and maybe some thunderstorms, So big mix bag on Friday.
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Speaker 2: The good news, though, is the weekend looks pretty good
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Speaker 2: at this point, both Saturday and Sunday if you have plans.
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Speaker 2: There's a couple of major paving projects going on. I
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Speaker 2: want to just tell you real briefly about a couple
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Speaker 2: of them that is affecting the Montpilier Waterbury Corridor v
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Speaker 2: trans surfacing resurfacing about ten miles of eighty nine south
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Speaker 2: around mile marker fifty two in the Berlin Montpilier area.
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Speaker 2: And continuing north to mile markers sixty three in Waterbury,
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Speaker 2: just south of the Exit ten. It includes the Exit
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Speaker 2: eight Monthpilier and Exit nine Middlesex ramps. This is a
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Speaker 2: pretty big project. The other one Richmond Southbounds. That is
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Speaker 2: a separate paving project that's about almost sixteen miles that
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Speaker 2: includes the Exit ten and Exit eleven interchanges. Most of
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Speaker 2: the work is occurring during the day, however, some nighttime
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Speaker 2: work at Exit ten and eleven. The one that I
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Speaker 2: got hung up in yesterday, which I'll just say it
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Speaker 2: created some delays, exercised my patients a little bit were
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Speaker 2: lack thereof was the Randolph Brookfield project on eighty nine South,
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Speaker 2: running from mile marker twenty five in Bethel to mile
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Speaker 2: marker thirty six in Brookfield, and that included the Exit
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Speaker 2: four interchange in Randolph. So just slowed down, exercise some caution,
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Speaker 2: some patience, and go easy. In the studio with me
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Speaker 2: this morning is Rex Thompson. Good morning, buddy.
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Speaker 1: What's going on man?
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Speaker 2: You have some big news to share this morning about
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Speaker 2: September fifth.
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Speaker 1: Actually I didn't, Okay, I didn't. The promoter who has
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Speaker 1: the promoter's license, had a big announcement this morning. Okay,
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Speaker 1: she just happens to be sick. She came down with
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Speaker 1: the flu or something like that. We had to take
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Speaker 1: her to the emergency room there Sunday.
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Speaker 2: All right, So Dad's filling in your pitch hitting this morning.
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Speaker 1: I am like, I got a phone call this morning.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm in my tidy whities hanging out and
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Speaker 1: then this blistering voice comes on the phone from the
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Speaker 1: other end. What I'm gonna do? JD? Calm down?
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Speaker 2: What what do you mean give JD? Come down?
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Speaker 1: I'll come down, not save you, but man, what do
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Speaker 1: you mean save me? Because you had made a deal
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Speaker 1: with my daughter for her to be here today. She
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Speaker 1: was going to make some amount announcements.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well she's she's sick. I get it should happened
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Speaker 2: this man happens all the time, So it does.
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Speaker 1: There's something going around, and she's really she's she lost
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Speaker 1: a lot of weight, she was puking and everything else.
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Speaker 1: So whatever it was, we took her, Like I said,
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Speaker 1: we took her up there. They gave her a bunch
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Speaker 1: of fluids and wow, really shit. All right, So but anyway,
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you're here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So one of those things. And this is one of
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Speaker 1: the things that's been happening. There's two things that are
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Speaker 1: happening in my life as far as business wise goes. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Number one, we've been transitioning everything over to my daughter, Taylor,
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Speaker 1: my for Donnybrook Fight Promotions. So Donnybrook Fight Promotions, I
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Speaker 1: gave up my promoter's license. So my promoter's license came
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Speaker 1: to an end, and it's an expensive license. And I'm
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Speaker 1: not the owner of Donnybrook really, my daughter is. So
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Speaker 1: I was like, hey, it's time for you to get
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Speaker 1: your promoter's license. So she got her promoter's license and
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Speaker 1: she's now has the promoter's license for Donnybrook Fight Promotions. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so she is the promoter. She's one of the owners.
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Speaker 1: Another thing that we did is we hired a professional
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Speaker 1: matchmaker and a lot of people already know this man,
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Speaker 1: Keegan Hornstra. Keegan is still active from Jim's all the
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Speaker 1: way from Montreal to Florida. So yeah and so, and
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Speaker 1: it's also helping him stay in the fight scene because
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Speaker 1: he can't fight and he loves to be in the
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Speaker 1: fight scene. The other thing is this is his opportunity.
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Speaker 1: Anybody that knows Keegan or follows Keegan. Keegan trolls the
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Speaker 1: shit out of every single promotion for bad matchups. Oh
10:02
Speaker 1: so this is kind of like, yeah, you know, you've
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Speaker 1: talked shit about let's let's you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: So now he's under pressure to make good matchups. Otherwise
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Speaker 1: he could be under the same microscope he's put other
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Speaker 1: promotions under.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: So I think it's a great opportunity. I like Keegan
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Speaker 1: and and what that does. By having a professional matchmaker,
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Speaker 1: that opens up for Taylor to do what she it
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Speaker 1: went to school for, and that is a content creator.
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Speaker 1: She uh, you know, photography, videoography, stuff like that. So
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Speaker 1: she will be the one in charge of, you know,
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Speaker 1: putting out daily content stuff like that. Because during the
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Speaker 1: fight time, Jimminy Cricket trying to put out fight content,
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Speaker 1: you have not only the fight content, she has to
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Speaker 1: do some sort of daily post daily plus talking to
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Speaker 1: fighters and coaches, making sure the fighters, the fighters have
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Speaker 1: filled out their forms, they have all of their licensing,
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Speaker 1: their medicals. There is so much to it, Like we
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Speaker 1: can't we don't just call somebody up and be like, yo,
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Speaker 1: hey you want to fight this day. That's an insane
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Speaker 1: amount of work. It is crazy, and you're dealing with
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Speaker 1: a fighter that's like, well, wait a minute, I'm fighting.
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Speaker 1: Why do I have to do paperwork? Yeah, you do paperwork,
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Speaker 1: Like I can't do your paperwork for you, my man.
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Speaker 1: So it's it's by doing this, we're able to expand
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Speaker 1: we're able to do more, and we're able to have
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Speaker 1: a bigger fight cards.
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Speaker 2: This is an insane amount of work for five ten people.
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Speaker 1: Five ten people, there's only two of us, I know.
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Speaker 1: That's what you know. And it's funny because another sanctioning
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Speaker 1: body had asked me before. They're like, why do you
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Speaker 1: do all of that work? Now? Think about all of
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Speaker 1: that work, and think about the last place that we
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Speaker 1: had our shows at. Now we had to do all
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Speaker 1: all of that work. In between setting up tables, setting
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Speaker 1: up chairs, setting up a whole arena, coordinating everything that
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Speaker 1: was also happening on the days of the fights. We
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Speaker 1: are focusing on advertisers. You know, we now have the
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Speaker 1: Army National Guard, the Air National Guard of course, aired
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Speaker 1: out podcast. We have no longer Barslow construction. We have
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Speaker 1: Valet Builders. Valet Builders is my son. He took all
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Speaker 1: of my tools, my business, everything and he is running
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Speaker 1: Valet builders. He's building a house up on Windy Wood.
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Speaker 1: Plus he's still doing other projects. He just got done
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Speaker 1: and doing a bathroom and basement for Eileen James.
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Speaker 2: Does he is he going to be sponsoring the aired
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Speaker 2: Out podcast? Or do I have to threaten him? So
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Speaker 2: right now, my son is like, my son is a
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Speaker 2: very conservative, nervous nelly.
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Speaker 1: So every single penny he's like because he's just starting
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Speaker 1: to get right in his face and scream at him.
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Speaker 2: Right half.
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Speaker 1: So he has a shop, I'll he has a shop,
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Speaker 1: he has tools, he has everything, all right.
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Speaker 2: So let's let's get to Uh, what's going on with
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Speaker 2: Kingdom come here?
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Speaker 1: Okay, so Kingdom come.
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Speaker 2: That's the big fight that was scheduled for September fifth.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's scheduled for September fifth at the Double Tree.
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Speaker 1: At the Double Tree in South bourl like that. There's
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Speaker 1: been a scheduling change and it's going to be moved
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Speaker 1: to October. Uh, it's the same fights. There's actually more
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Speaker 1: fights that are going to be on this one. It
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Speaker 1: ended up being the perfect storm. We had both the
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Speaker 1: main and Comaine get injured. They got injured, not really
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Speaker 1: a big deal to do that, but then the Champlain.
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Speaker 1: We found out the Champlain Valley Fair moved their date up,
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Speaker 1: so the hotel had double booked. Also, there was we
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Speaker 1: hadn't received our event license, so you got to think
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Speaker 1: about that. There's just two of us. There's me and Taylor,
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Speaker 1: plus I'm trying to help my son in his construction
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Speaker 1: company to do that. So we're trying to do all
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Speaker 1: of that in a very short We don't have a staff, Like,
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Speaker 1: we don't have a hired staff to take care of
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Speaker 1: all that stuff, so we handle it all on our own.
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Speaker 1: That's how we're able to do more for fighters and
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Speaker 1: keep our cost low because we do. We do more
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Speaker 1: of the sweat equity, you know, like Adam Lash is
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Speaker 1: good at that. Adam Lash doesn't for sweat equity. That's
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Speaker 1: how that's how you're able to do bigger things for
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Speaker 1: your fighters by doing that. But now we've realized, we're like, hey,
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Speaker 1: we've gone to that next level. We have to hire
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Speaker 1: these people. We have to hire the staff. Sure, like
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Speaker 1: the hotel. Now we don't have to worry about that.
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Speaker 1: Our setup literally takes forty five minutes.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well you got it dialed in, you know.
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Speaker 1: Well, there's no dialing in they do everything. Yeah, we
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Speaker 1: just have to set up the ring. It takes forty
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Speaker 1: five minutes to set up the boxing.
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Speaker 2: Ring, right, So what's so what what if somebody's got
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Speaker 2: tickets for September fifth.
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Speaker 1: Said, they're still they're still good. Everything, nothing has changed,
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Speaker 1: The fights haven't changed. Uh, the venue hasn't changed. It's
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Speaker 1: just the date got pushed out. It's a rain date,
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Speaker 1: kind of like a rain date thing because there's too much. Uh,
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Speaker 1: the hotels are packed up there. There's people coming in
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Speaker 1: from all over out of state, and there's no way
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Speaker 1: to get them rooms. All right, it's just logistically things
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Speaker 1: got really messed up.
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Speaker 2: So last minute, all right, do we have a date
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Speaker 2: for it in October?
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Speaker 1: October tenth? October tenth, October tenth, it's set in stone.
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Speaker 1: We've already got the event license for October ten, we
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Speaker 1: have the sanctioning body all set, the hotel's booked. We
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Speaker 1: just changed the dates. Everything's paid for. We just changed
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Speaker 1: the dates, all right, So everybody's good.
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Speaker 2: So how so tell me about other other promotions in
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Speaker 2: the region and how they affect each other? And that
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Speaker 2: was that issue here?
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Speaker 1: Ye? Yes, and no, like combat Zone is huge because
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Speaker 1: it's Calvin Cater down there is a UFC fighter. They're
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Speaker 1: in the s NHU Arena. They had fights two weeks
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Speaker 1: before September fifth, and so they had I think almost
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Speaker 1: twenty fights on that card, So that takes forty fighters
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Speaker 1: right out of New England and there's and then you
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Speaker 1: have any f so you try to strategically plan in
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Speaker 1: between those, and we got caught and we also got
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Speaker 1: caught in between those, but we still had ten solid
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Speaker 1: fights on the card, so we can always build a card.
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Speaker 1: We have you know, we have the gyms here in Vermont,
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Speaker 1: we have other gyms. Now we've got some other gyms
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Speaker 1: coming from another country.
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Speaker 2: So wow, it's a pretty deep pool, isn't it.
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Speaker 1: It is now? But now you have promotions popping up
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Speaker 1: all the time, and it really depends on your connection.
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Speaker 2: In the region.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. And then you have you know,
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Speaker 1: and then you have like Bare Knuckle coming along, and
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Speaker 1: they'll anybody can get on a Bare Knuckle card, but
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Speaker 1: they it's professional. It's on TV, so a lot of
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Speaker 1: people get seen by it. So you know, those will
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Speaker 1: take they'll take fighters off a car. You know, maybe
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Speaker 1: they'll take one or two of your professional fighters because
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Speaker 1: they have a bigger viewership. So they're like, hey, man,
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Speaker 1: I can fight for you pro and yes, you'll give
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Speaker 1: me four thousand dollars to show up, but I could
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Speaker 1: go on TV over here. They'll give me two thousand.
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Speaker 1: But I'll be on TV and I get more exposure,
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Speaker 1: so you know, good for them. That's that's how promotion
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Speaker 1: went interesting.
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Speaker 2: All right. So again, if you're just joining us Rex
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Speaker 2: Thompson Donnybrook Fight Promotions the September fifth Kingdom Come event
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Speaker 2: at the Double Tree tenth it has been moved to
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Speaker 2: October tenth, Yes, September fifth, October tenth.
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Speaker 1: So with that said, that's how we're able to offer
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Speaker 1: our fans if you want to up and stay the weekend.
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Speaker 1: And you mentioned Donnie Brook, there's a code up there.
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Speaker 1: Instead of paying four hundred dollars a night for those
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Speaker 1: beautiful rooms, they knock them down to one twenty two.
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Speaker 2: Okay, wow, So.
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Speaker 1: That our fans can come up, stay the night and
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Speaker 1: have a couple of drinks, right, and I'll have to
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Speaker 1: go any it's sort of a huge breakfast in the morning.
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Speaker 1: You don't even leave the hotel. Everything's right there. No,
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Speaker 1: you could drink in there, bring your drink to your room. Whatever.
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Speaker 2: There's the thing you need to worry about is pressing
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Speaker 2: the right number on the elevator. That's right, that's it.
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Speaker 1: That's it.
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Speaker 2: Wow, all right, tell me about your sponsors again for
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Speaker 2: October tenth.
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Speaker 1: Oh, October tenth. We have the Air National Guard, we
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Speaker 1: have the Army National Guard. I think the h Bros Brothers.
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Speaker 1: I think Corey Hebert still sponsors us Kidder's Interior aired
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Speaker 1: out podcast. Oh please, Lord, don't let me forget any
18:57
Speaker 1: um and whoever else my daughter landed there.
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Speaker 2: All right, Opportunities still for advertisers, for companies to sponsor.
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Speaker 1: Oh always, because all of our stuff is televised, our subscription,
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Speaker 1: our YouTube, our production crew. They are phenomenal. They've done
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Speaker 1: for ESPN boxing, these guys. They so when your ad
19:24
Speaker 1: goes out there, unlike when you advertise with like radio
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Speaker 1: or something like that, your ad runs for a couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks and then that's it. It's done. Well. When
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Speaker 1: we cut our when we cut the film and edit
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Speaker 1: it the whole live stream. When it's done, we put
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Speaker 1: them into individual fights on YouTube. Guess why that's on
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Speaker 1: there forever. Yeah, it's just a real whatever you know,
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Speaker 1: you pay for it. You paid for it that one time.
19:48
Speaker 1: But it's on that video. So now say that there
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Speaker 1: was a huge knockout or he's super popular. Guy, your little,
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Speaker 1: your little thirty second ad is being played millions of
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Speaker 1: times to people.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, yeah you mentioned, uh just a little bit
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Speaker 2: ago bare knuckle. We've had some just recently. I'm seeing
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Speaker 2: it all over social media.
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Speaker 1: Yes, uh yeah, you had a couple of local fighters
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Speaker 1: that thought we did. Where was it down down at
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Speaker 1: the uh moment? It was it was the moh it
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Speaker 1: was the Mogans, Well he can Sun Casino, Sophia and Hayes. Yes, unbelievable,
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Speaker 1: I honestly, And and uh, nothing bad, nothing bad on
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Speaker 1: her or anything like that. I just seeing her like
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Speaker 1: and the weight in the face offs or anything, and
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Speaker 1: knowing that his bare knuckle gives me huge anxiety, huge
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Speaker 1: anxiety for some reason. I mean because I've known her
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Speaker 1: since she was fourteen years old and I'm so scared
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Speaker 1: of her getting her I really like, I I can't
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Speaker 1: why I heard she won and that's fucking awesome. I
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Speaker 1: hope she wins every single one of them without an injury.
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Speaker 1: But bare knuckle is uh bare knuckles a different beast,
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Speaker 1: and I wish her the best, but I can't. It
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Speaker 1: scares the shit out of me to watch that. I don't. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know Chris One, Chris won his fight, but I
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Speaker 1: mean doesn't scare me. He's a big, burly fucking guy anyway,
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Speaker 1: so that you know, it doesn't scare you to to
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Speaker 1: watch something like that fight or whatever. But they were
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Speaker 1: local guys, and uh, kudos to them. They they won
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Speaker 1: their fights. And like I said, the more I'm known
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Speaker 1: Sophia longer than I knew Chris and and I just
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Speaker 1: I still see her as a little girl. And when
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Speaker 1: I see it would be the same as if Mike
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Speaker 1: my daughter was fighting bare knuckle too, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean. Not that I'm as close as her her
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Speaker 1: father daughter relationship thing. I'm just it for me, it's
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Speaker 1: hard to watch. Gives me super anxiety.
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Speaker 2: So is it? Is it bare knuckle and alpow?
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Speaker 1: No, No, it's just boxing, just bare knuckle boxing. She's
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Speaker 1: transition transition from m M A to the bare knuckle through.
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Speaker 2: I just I've never been to a bare knuckle fight.
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Speaker 2: I can't even.
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Speaker 1: Chris Rooney is fighting another local guys fighting at Fenway
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Speaker 1: Uh next weekend. This coming weekend, Chris Rooney is also
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Speaker 1: fighting another guy that fought for Donnie Brook.
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Speaker 2: He fought.
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Speaker 1: Yep, he held one of my titles.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, he's doing bare knuckle it f.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Fenway Park, Chris. He's making his debut.
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Speaker 2: This coming weekend. Oh my god, dude, Yeah, what's it?
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Speaker 2: What's it sound like?
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Speaker 1: Oh? I don't know, I don't mind watching. I just
22:49
Speaker 1: I can't. Like I met Britt Harr Dave Feldman, and
22:52
Speaker 1: I know Rick the matchmaker and ship, and I just
22:55
Speaker 1: like when it comes to the females. For me, I'm
22:58
Speaker 1: not a I'm not a fan of female barre knuckle
23:01
Speaker 1: just me personally, I don't. I have a daughter and
23:03
Speaker 1: I can't. Oh yeah I have I don't know, I
23:06
Speaker 1: have like empathy and I don't want to see that
23:11
Speaker 1: probably coming with my older age. Yeah, all right, pussy.
23:15
Speaker 2: So So September fifth at the Double Tree in Burlington.
23:21
Speaker 1: It's canceled, it's it's pushed out. October tenth.
23:24
Speaker 2: October tenth at the Double Tree. All right, the Kingdom come.
23:32
Speaker 2: And you're saying Keith and Hornstra is the matchmaker.
23:35
Speaker 1: Yes, Keegan has become the Matchmak. You'll see him at
23:38
Speaker 1: the show with his wife and daughter Klaws. Look forward
23:41
Speaker 1: to see man, they'll be there walking around.
23:47
Speaker 2: That guy.
23:50
Speaker 1: Is he's been through a lot.
23:54
Speaker 2: Eh, He's been through an awful lot.
23:56
Speaker 1: Dude, I'll never forget, Like, tell him he came to
24:01
Speaker 1: the wings. He's like, bro, there's something wrong. Why not?
24:03
Speaker 1: There's really something. I was like, you're just being a pussy,
24:05
Speaker 1: rubbed dirt in it. You'll be fine. And it was
24:08
Speaker 1: his title fight, small glove title fight versus I remember
24:11
Speaker 1: Don Pena. I was there. I remember when he got
24:14
Speaker 1: done and he's like, man, I'm telling you there's something wrong.
24:17
Speaker 1: And he didn't look right. It just it it didn't
24:19
Speaker 1: look right.
24:20
Speaker 2: Yep.
24:21
Speaker 3: And then we found out that testicular canticulate cancer, yeah,
24:27
Speaker 3: which then it ended up going into his lungs and
24:31
Speaker 3: dude's a fighter.
24:32
Speaker 1: Man. I really liked that guy.
24:35
Speaker 2: There was a point when Keekan was was maybe he
24:42
Speaker 2: checked out, pretty checked out, like it looked like the end.
24:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, I went I saw him.
24:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep.
24:49
Speaker 1: My exact words were too because he's like, I'm just
24:51
Speaker 1: because he was tired. Man, look at the fight. He
24:53
Speaker 1: had been fucking doing. But I said. I remember my
24:56
Speaker 1: exact words, damn, were, well that's cool man, some other
24:59
Speaker 1: guy raise your sun, right, some other guys morals of
25:04
Speaker 1: course it was, but guess what he thought. And he's
25:08
Speaker 1: back at it. Maybe if you said that to me,
25:10
Speaker 1: I'd give you the fucking bar knumble dude, probably, and
25:14
Speaker 1: I expected it. But it's a reality. It's a truth,
25:17
Speaker 1: and it's something we don't think about when we go
25:20
Speaker 1: to give up. And he weren't ready to give up anyway.
25:24
Speaker 1: That motherfucker had way too much fight still left in him,
25:28
Speaker 1: so he and his wife wasn't gonna let him. And
25:30
Speaker 1: she's way meaner than him.
25:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, like.
25:35
Speaker 1: Really she's on it.
25:38
Speaker 2: So so keeck So Keegan is doing the matchmaking yep
25:44
Speaker 2: for the October ten.
25:47
Speaker 1: Yes, we still have We still have those fights from
25:50
Speaker 1: September fifth, Those fights are still on. All the fighters
25:53
Speaker 1: are good. Yeah, but we're adding more. This just gives
25:56
Speaker 1: us time to add even more fights to it.
25:59
Speaker 2: That's all. I would love to chat with Keikan that night.
26:03
Speaker 2: I would love to.
26:04
Speaker 1: I think Liam oh, Liam McNeil is going to be
26:06
Speaker 1: doing the uh, he's going to be doing commentating with
26:09
Speaker 1: Deb Ballard, Ronnie Patterson.
26:11
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
26:12
Speaker 1: So that's a good good crew.
26:14
Speaker 2: That's fantastic and.
26:16
Speaker 1: It's and the best part is everything is inside of
26:18
Speaker 1: a five rope ring. We got the conversion kit last
26:23
Speaker 1: week and what it adds is it adds a rope
26:25
Speaker 1: six inches off the ground and then they put we
26:28
Speaker 1: put these straps and you velcrow each one of the
26:31
Speaker 1: straps so that the straps, the ropes can't spread apart,
26:35
Speaker 1: and you put them every four feet all the way around.
26:38
Speaker 2: I kind of wondered about that, Yep, how that works? Yep,
26:41
Speaker 2: because mma is it's totally different from boxing that I
26:45
Speaker 2: used to do it in.
26:46
Speaker 1: Pride all the time. We have a lot of kickboxing.
26:50
Speaker 1: We have a k one. Did you see the belts?
26:54
Speaker 1: Those are beautiful. We have Oh you know what, if
27:00
Speaker 1: you hadn't called me when I was in my tidy whities,
27:03
Speaker 1: I would have remembered that and I would have brought
27:05
Speaker 1: them both in. One's a red strap with gold and
27:08
Speaker 1: blue lettering. The other one's green with silver and black lettering. Wow,
27:13
Speaker 1: they're pretty sweet. We have one hundred and seventy pound
27:17
Speaker 1: Muay Thai title justin Olivera is fighting, and then we
27:21
Speaker 1: have the one hundred and thirty pound K one style kickboxing,
27:25
Speaker 1: and I think that's still going to be Isaac agui Era.
27:28
Speaker 2: All Right, you had some really incredible fights last time
27:34
Speaker 2: around at the Double Tree.
27:36
Speaker 1: Every single one of them were of fantastic banger.
27:39
Speaker 2: Yeah.
27:39
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that dynamic sweep that happened on Logan
27:43
Speaker 1: loftisc he's fighting again. Eric Trepanier's fighting on this card
27:48
Speaker 1: out of UFAI. Brooklyn Gardener's fighting out of combat fitness.
27:53
Speaker 1: I think Charlie Lrosa's fighting out of there. We're trying
27:56
Speaker 1: to get Charlie al Samira back on the card, so
27:59
Speaker 1: we'll get uh combat fit. Vermont should have a really
28:02
Speaker 1: really good showing on that car too.
28:07
Speaker 2: Lindsay Valentine, yep, what happened that night?
28:11
Speaker 1: Man? I gotta tell you, I don't give a ship.
28:13
Speaker 1: Lindsay is tough. Tough. You know why I say that.
28:18
Speaker 1: I've seen I could have taken one of those knees.
28:21
Speaker 1: She took like twenty of them fucking knees.
28:25
Speaker 2: Who was she fighting against that?
28:26
Speaker 3: Uh?
28:27
Speaker 1: Tatiana come Vermont, muyta, Oh she was so. Tatiana is
28:32
Speaker 1: getting ready to go out. She just want to fight
28:35
Speaker 1: against a really seasoned fighter Danielle Kelly. Actually, Keegan Hornstra's girl,
28:41
Speaker 1: Tatiana just beat Keegan Horns's girl Danielle.
28:44
Speaker 2: Kelly in a Muay Thai fight that was brutal.
28:48
Speaker 1: So uh, but that Tatiana girl is going out to
28:53
Speaker 1: like Seattle. She's gonna be the first woman to fight
28:56
Speaker 1: a transgender in mouyta.
29:01
Speaker 2: Really wow.
29:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. It's I don't know. She wants
29:08
Speaker 1: to make history what it is, but uh, it's a
29:10
Speaker 1: weird and I'm not saying it's weird. I have no
29:13
Speaker 1: judgment whatsoever.
29:15
Speaker 2: Well, you just said it's weird.
29:17
Speaker 1: I'm weird. But I'm weird too, I'm weird. I Uh,
29:23
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I just I just don't. I
29:27
Speaker 1: we've been approached about booking that. But good for her.
29:30
Speaker 1: She's getting her name out and that does not take
29:34
Speaker 1: from her. I mean she is legit, she's very technical,
29:38
Speaker 1: she's a she's a super sweet person. Yeah, yeah, she
29:41
Speaker 1: really really is. I don't know her. I never asked her.
29:43
Speaker 1: I don't know what her reasoning why she wanted to
29:46
Speaker 1: do something like that, but that's you know, you would
29:48
Speaker 1: have to ask her. And I'm not going to make
29:50
Speaker 1: any assumption on why she did it or.
29:52
Speaker 2: Back back to Lindsey, Yeah, just just to echo her
29:58
Speaker 2: level of toughness. Do you of course, I don't have
30:01
Speaker 2: to ask you if you remember, of course you remember,
30:03
Speaker 2: I'll put the Burry Auditorium. Do you remember that fight
30:06
Speaker 2: that Lindsay Valentine was in where her freaking face was
30:11
Speaker 2: just smashed in and she just kept goingale, Oh my god.
30:19
Speaker 2: She would not give up. It was amazing. That was
30:24
Speaker 2: one of the best fights I think I've ever seen
30:26
Speaker 2: at the odd Yep. Wow. Yeah, So she's Is she
30:32
Speaker 2: back October tenth?
30:34
Speaker 1: No, I don't remember. If she's on the card. She's
30:37
Speaker 1: always She's always welcome on the card. All right.
30:42
Speaker 2: For folks listening that are curious and I get to
30:51
Speaker 2: be honest with you, I still get asked this question,
30:56
Speaker 2: what happened to Donnybrook fight promotions up the Peri Auditorium?
31:01
Speaker 2: They ask me, nothing happened? What I It's not up
31:07
Speaker 2: to me to give the answer to that.
31:09
Speaker 1: It's it's up to It was simple, they told they,
31:11
Speaker 1: They told us that was the last one unless I
31:13
Speaker 1: went and sat down and talked to Nicholas and.
31:17
Speaker 2: Uh the city manager.
31:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and I don't. I'm not going to beg
31:24
Speaker 1: anybody to give them money.
31:27
Speaker 2: What was the reception of the Double Tree in South America?
31:36
Speaker 1: It was so And this is the and this is
31:38
Speaker 1: exactly why we switched out of municipality to private corporation municipality.
31:45
Speaker 1: During every single voting cycle, things change, rules, regulations. You
31:50
Speaker 1: start out with the good old boy system and everybody
31:52
Speaker 1: knows everybody. Now everybody's voted out. Now it's going to
31:55
Speaker 1: be well, I don't like you. I like this sport
31:58
Speaker 1: more so I'm going to lead in this way. I'm
32:00
Speaker 1: going to do this so it becomes a political thing,
32:03
Speaker 1: and it really we need as a business, we need
32:08
Speaker 1: something more stable. So South Burlington offered a stable environment
32:13
Speaker 1: for us. They invited us up there. When it comes
32:16
Speaker 1: to the setup they are marketing because we're bringing money
32:20
Speaker 1: into their hotel. Not only are we paying them to
32:23
Speaker 1: rent the venue, but we're bringing in what eleven hundred
32:27
Speaker 1: and twelve hundred people into their hotel. We're getting four
32:31
Speaker 1: hundred rooms rented that night. So now they even they're
32:35
Speaker 1: putting a banner out front of their hotel for the
32:38
Speaker 1: entire week before the fights.
32:40
Speaker 2: For us, you got a huge population too, in a
32:43
Speaker 2: young demographic.
32:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's right in a college college down there,
32:47
Speaker 1: so there's a huge support because people want to see
32:51
Speaker 1: it up there. It's not like most of our fans,
32:54
Speaker 1: even when we're at the auditorium, came from upstate New York,
32:59
Speaker 1: Upstate New York, New Hampshire and New Hampshire. Yeah, yeah,
33:02
Speaker 1: we get now. It is just it's the local people.
33:06
Speaker 1: They're like, holy ship, this is walking distance from and
33:10
Speaker 1: we can watch this. Sure, we can watch an exciting
33:13
Speaker 1: fight inside of this professional boxing ring, right and they're
33:17
Speaker 1: super excited.
33:18
Speaker 2: I was. I was delighted when I was there at
33:22
Speaker 2: the at the first one to see so many people
33:25
Speaker 2: from Barry. I met some people from New Hampshire. I
33:28
Speaker 2: met some people from Maine, and I met some people
33:31
Speaker 2: from Massachusetts and Connecticut. That and you said, New York
33:34
Speaker 2: is a pretty pretty good place state New York.
33:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a whole There was like three tables
33:39
Speaker 1: of upstate New York. They were they were like and
33:41
Speaker 1: then a matter, we're going the bar with the UVM students. Yeah.
33:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was just a whole crowd at the bar.
33:48
Speaker 1: They were all from the like the UVM medical program
33:52
Speaker 1: or something.
33:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, comment here you brought money, tourism and media attention
33:58
Speaker 2: and they didn't like it. Imagine that. I don't.
34:03
Speaker 1: I don't know. Like I said, things changed, I we
34:07
Speaker 1: we got a pretty good reception here. They liked having
34:10
Speaker 1: us here, They helped out a lot, and then new
34:14
Speaker 1: people came in and it just everything changed. And that's
34:19
Speaker 1: when we realized. I mean we had to the last show.
34:22
Speaker 1: We lost so much money. I don't think a lot
34:26
Speaker 1: of people realize, like, we put forty fifty thousand dollars
34:29
Speaker 1: into each one of those shows, each one of them,
34:33
Speaker 1: and top to bottom. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, nothing's cheap, especially
34:38
Speaker 1: in Vermont, because you got to think about when you
34:42
Speaker 1: bring people in. They need a place to.
34:44
Speaker 2: Stay, they need a place to eat.
34:46
Speaker 1: You got twenty fight, you got twenty fighters. We have
34:48
Speaker 1: to find we have to pay for accommodations if you
34:52
Speaker 1: have If you have twenty fights, that's forty fighters. You
34:54
Speaker 1: have to find accommodations for. Yeah, you're talking eight. Even
34:58
Speaker 1: when a hotel cuts you a deal, you still have
34:59
Speaker 1: eight one thousand dollars just in hotel bill. Sure, So
35:06
Speaker 1: we had the business margin we've in Berry City. We
35:11
Speaker 1: never made a profit. We broke even a couple of times.
35:16
Speaker 2: MM.
35:18
Speaker 1: So we're always hoping it would build, it would build,
35:20
Speaker 1: but COVID, I mean, it's not everything. I can't I'm
35:24
Speaker 1: not blaming this barrier. I'm just saying politics change things,
35:28
Speaker 1: and if your business is intertwined, intertwined with a municipality
35:32
Speaker 1: or our politics, things can change on a heartbeat. Just
35:36
Speaker 1: look at the builders that are let's go on a
35:38
Speaker 1: large scale. Look at the builders at the White House
35:41
Speaker 1: right now. Trump's in office, would build away here. So
35:45
Speaker 1: come next next cycle, whoever gets voted in, all of
35:48
Speaker 1: those people had the contracts. They're like, ah, we don't
35:51
Speaker 1: like you, stop building. We're now going to put it
35:53
Speaker 1: out this way. Now. They just you know, you can
35:57
Speaker 1: screw it. When anytime that government's involved in your business,
36:00
Speaker 1: there's always a chance. So there's always a chance of failure,
36:05
Speaker 1: and not on their side because they have that unlimited
36:08
Speaker 1: income stream that you don't have as a private business.
36:13
Speaker 1: So we had to sit down. We made that choice,
36:16
Speaker 1: and we met with the hotel quite a few times
36:18
Speaker 1: before we made that decision, and they wanted to see okay,
36:23
Speaker 1: So they got asked to do this a couple times
36:25
Speaker 1: up there, and they were like no, So they were like,
36:28
Speaker 1: finally they let this happen. We explained to them that
36:31
Speaker 1: we were licensed through the state. There would be state
36:34
Speaker 1: inspectors there. This is our sanction aboudy. So we had
36:36
Speaker 1: to meet with them and make them feel comfortable that
36:40
Speaker 1: our fight show wasn't going to be a wild redneck brawl.
36:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that it was.
36:44
Speaker 1: A professional show. They were so impressed by that. They
36:49
Speaker 1: were like, yeah that they said, when you said professional,
36:52
Speaker 1: we were not. We still expected kind of a third rag.
36:57
Speaker 1: They were like, that was like being at a at
37:01
Speaker 1: any professional boxing show, even the amateur fights, the staff, everybody,
37:07
Speaker 1: and they were how well everything was handled. You know,
37:13
Speaker 1: it was a professional show. People weren't getting drunk throwing
37:16
Speaker 1: beer cans in the fucking roads, and the place was packed.
37:20
Speaker 1: It was a good time.
37:20
Speaker 2: It was yeah, and it was great to see some
37:25
Speaker 2: new eyes, some new faces Burlington. I mean that there
37:29
Speaker 2: was a couple of fighters that had had their own posse.
37:32
Speaker 2: That was just huge. That was so much fun to
37:36
Speaker 2: see that. God, all right, so October tenth, yep, any
37:42
Speaker 2: tickets that you have there, they're still good. We're going
37:45
Speaker 2: to be honored.
37:46
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh yeah. The ticket doesn't even change, It
37:48
Speaker 1: doesn't have a date on it. What about listen, you
37:51
Speaker 1: know food is very important to me. Yeah, okay, So
37:55
Speaker 1: we talked about this with the hotel because we got
38:00
Speaker 1: to have more than just pizza. We need a menu.
38:04
Speaker 1: We need some Donnie Todts. Yeah, we need some elite burgers.
38:11
Speaker 1: We need some Friday night fries or nachos, something, thank you.
38:18
Speaker 2: So what's happening with that with regard to.
38:20
Speaker 1: They're gonna they're gonna come up with a menu. Whendn't
38:23
Speaker 1: we get it? We'll post it.
38:24
Speaker 2: All right October tenth. All right, so keep watch, pay
38:30
Speaker 2: attention Donny Brooke fight.
38:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, will be advertising like a bastard. Because Taylor can
38:34
Speaker 1: now focus on our all of our highlight reels. You'll
38:38
Speaker 1: start seeing a lot more media going out there in
38:42
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks because she can focus on that.
38:45
Speaker 1: Right now, she's been helping me with Resilient Defense and
38:48
Speaker 1: the huge project going on at Williamstown. Can you speak anymore?
38:55
Speaker 1: Speak on all of it? What is Resilient Defenselliant Defense
39:01
Speaker 1: Institute is a nonprofit organization where I like, where we
39:05
Speaker 1: work with mentorship through martial arts. It's an idea that
39:13
Speaker 1: I came up with and I got with the counselors
39:17
Speaker 1: at the Williamstown High School. They gave me seven at
39:21
Speaker 1: risk teams. We graduated five of them. Yeah, and uh,
39:29
Speaker 1: I think we made a huge impact on their life
39:33
Speaker 1: in that six weeks. Yeah. So a gentleman who lives
39:38
Speaker 1: in Williamstown saw the impact that we did on them kids,
39:43
Speaker 1: and he offered us a piece of land.
39:45
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
39:46
Speaker 1: He said, I want you to I want you to
39:49
Speaker 1: build a Resilient Defense Institute, community self defense center. Okay,
39:59
Speaker 1: So he he's gonna call me in the next couple
40:03
Speaker 1: of days so that I can go down and mark
40:07
Speaker 1: out exactly the building size that we can have. We'd
40:11
Speaker 1: like to have classrooms, we'd like to have private rooms
40:15
Speaker 1: for counseling inside of there, on top of weight room,
40:19
Speaker 1: boxing ring.
40:21
Speaker 2: You're onto something here, because there's a real relationship between
40:26
Speaker 2: all of this mental health, self defense, life trauma, everything
40:32
Speaker 2: else that goes with this.
40:34
Speaker 1: We will teach and so for the community, we'll teach
40:38
Speaker 1: free self defense, free kids classes. And then then we're
40:42
Speaker 1: gonna also offer that space up for counselors other arts
40:47
Speaker 1: that want to teach there will say, hey for a
40:49
Speaker 1: percentage you can use this during these hours. There's we
40:55
Speaker 1: want to put out. We're going to have a state
40:56
Speaker 1: of the art community center. We've been talking with Sig
40:59
Speaker 1: Sour also down in New Hampshire because they have a
41:03
Speaker 1: self defense center down there. So it'll be huge for
41:09
Speaker 1: the community in Williamstown. And then this gives us a
41:12
Speaker 1: business model to expand this to every community.
41:17
Speaker 2: And Fuji tell me about that.
41:19
Speaker 1: So Fuji initially helped us with the first We haven't
41:23
Speaker 1: reached out to Fuji yet again, we haven't, but we
41:30
Speaker 1: most likely will. So they they they donated three thousand
41:37
Speaker 1: dollars worth of gear for those seven kids. And so
41:41
Speaker 1: what we did for those seven kids for six weeks
41:43
Speaker 1: every Wednesday, their parents would drop us off, drop them off.
41:47
Speaker 1: They they we would start with warming up ten nine eights.
41:52
Speaker 1: We do boxing drills, tie drills, stuff like that. Padwork, okay,
41:59
Speaker 1: get them warmed up, get them really hit in the bags.
42:04
Speaker 1: We'd do a lot. We'd get them really tired. We
42:06
Speaker 1: do a lot of live sparring. And we didn't want
42:09
Speaker 1: to teach them a lot of technique because they had
42:12
Speaker 1: a lot of anger, a lot of trauma in their life.
42:14
Speaker 1: So instead me We would only let them fight with
42:17
Speaker 1: me and Ed when we were live sparring because they
42:20
Speaker 1: would throw really really hard punches, and me and Ed
42:24
Speaker 1: know how to cut angles, and so we didn't want
42:28
Speaker 1: to see the kids get into full on fistfights because
42:31
Speaker 1: of their own childhood trauma. So after that we would
42:34
Speaker 1: take the last half hour and we would talk to
42:36
Speaker 1: these kids. We had a huge focus on suicide. That
42:41
Speaker 1: was a big big kids today struggle with suicide so
42:44
Speaker 1: much and they throw it around like it's like that world,
42:50
Speaker 1: you know. So instead of telling them what they can
42:53
Speaker 1: and can't do, and I tell them as I can't
42:55
Speaker 1: control you, I can just tell you the things that
42:58
Speaker 1: I did and the consequences from the things that I did. Sure,
43:03
Speaker 1: And so that's what we talked about a lot, and
43:06
Speaker 1: I the kids felt comfortable to talk back, and we
43:09
Speaker 1: had of course Big Ad there. Big Ads just an
43:12
Speaker 1: incredible mentor to those kids. I think when it's so
43:17
Speaker 1: when you put this in a in a community, especially
43:19
Speaker 1: when you give free self defense level self defense should
43:23
Speaker 1: be free, just just like swimming lessons. It should be
43:27
Speaker 1: that you should have it. It should not be just
43:30
Speaker 1: for the rich.
43:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, agree, you know what I mean?
43:35
Speaker 1: So I agree. Now, like, if you want to focus
43:38
Speaker 1: on one single art and in that sport more in depth, yes,
43:44
Speaker 1: you'd have to obviously pay for that, or.
43:48
Speaker 2: You're going to keep me and our followers here. It
43:53
Speaker 2: aired out up to speed on.
43:56
Speaker 1: You're gonna hear I'm gonna scream this from the top
43:59
Speaker 1: of the mountain. And because once we put the grades
44:02
Speaker 1: sakes up, then we're going to start the fundraising. I've
44:05
Speaker 1: already talked to a concrete company. The next we're going
44:08
Speaker 1: to talk to a lumberyard. We have laborers already. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of federal and state grants because we're federally
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Speaker 1: recognized nonprofit, so you know, there's grants to get all
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Speaker 1: all the equipment on the inside, brand new, state of
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Speaker 1: the air and equipment, stuff like that, and it'll be
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Speaker 1: a brand new like we'll make it energy efficient. We'll
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Speaker 1: make it super energy efficient for you because I know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: try to try to do it green. Why not solar panels,
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Speaker 1: you know, why not? You want your air conditioning, I'll
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Speaker 1: just pipe down. I'll dig down pipes five feet in
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Speaker 1: the ground and have amish air conditioning inside the building
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Speaker 1: all the time.
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Speaker 2: Can I can I just throw an idea out there,
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Speaker 2: ye little hold plunge bath, Oh yeah yeah yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well we'll have shout we'll have showers, we'll have locker
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Speaker 1: rooms hopefully, you know, maybe it depends on the footprint.
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Speaker 1: So I haven't even told anybody who this person is.
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Speaker 1: And without him it none of this would be happening.
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Speaker 1: And you know what, I just prayed for this. I
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Speaker 1: was like, man, this has to happen. It really really
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Speaker 1: has to happen. And then he called me and he's like, boom, do.
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Speaker 2: You want to let fly with who the he is
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Speaker 2: or not?
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Speaker 1: Or do you want to hold I'm going to he's
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Speaker 1: So he's a super controversial person, just like me.
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Speaker 2: Do you want to hold off on this?
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Speaker 1: Nope, Nope, I don't. I want to give this dude
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Speaker 1: a shout out. He just had a bone marrow transplant.
45:57
Speaker 1: His ex wife died when he was down there. They
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Speaker 1: had just recently. He was still close to her and
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Speaker 1: the kids Kaisa, So he's been going through some lot.
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't think he has a long life
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Speaker 1: to live, and he's trying to make his amends and
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Speaker 1: that's what he's been doing. So Chris desrou is the
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Speaker 1: one making it real. It's no longer just an idea.
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Speaker 2: Hmm, well let's get down there and throw a camera
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Speaker 2: in his face. No he doesn't want it.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, No, he just had a bone marrow transplant. No, no, tomorrow.
47:00
Speaker 1: I can't be in contact with anybody.
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying, Okay, I'm saying eventually.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean maybe like a zoom, maybe we could
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Speaker 1: get him on the phone. Okay, something like that. Okay,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, no, he's he can't be around people or anything.
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Speaker 2: Okay. Wow, thank you buddy. Thanks for getting in here man,
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Speaker 2: and and thanks for sharing that with us. There's some
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Speaker 2: really really big things on the horizon and it's exciting
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Speaker 2: as hell.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, really good things. And I love this again, Rex Thompson.
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Speaker 2: We're moving to October tenth for the Kingdom Come event
47:42
Speaker 2: the Double Tree. It's going to be huge. Get your tickets.
47:46
Speaker 2: Donnybrook Fight Promotions dot Com wrap it up this morning.
47:52
Speaker 2: I just want to give you a quick glimpse of
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Speaker 2: what's happening with the community calendar, brought to you by
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Speaker 2: Central from o favorite weekly newspaper, of course, that would
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Speaker 2: at the Lake Morris Summer Concert Series. It's gonna be huge.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be a lot of people there. The weather
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Speaker 2: looks like it's gonna hold off and it's gonna be
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Speaker 2: good tonight. We'll see you there. I think it's like
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Speaker 2: an eight o'clock show. Get on their social to have
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Speaker 2: a look at that for more details. But the food
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Speaker 2: trucks will be out. It's gonna be a great night.
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Speaker 2: Muscanine Bloodline by the way on Thursday night to wrap
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Speaker 2: up the Lake Moriy Summer Concert Series. I know everyone's
48:39
Speaker 2: still disappointed about Collective Soul wing Wednesday tomorrow VFW Post
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Speaker 2: seven ninety in Barry five o'clock. Of course, the Courier Park,
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Speaker 2: food trucks, farmers' markets and live music. It'll be Elizabeth
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Speaker 2: Begins tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Wow, this month is just flying by Man Racing on
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Speaker 2: Thursday at thunder Road. We got a great week, and
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Speaker 2: of course Caledonia County Fair in Lindonville is going on.
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Speaker 2: Starts tomorrow, runs through the thirtieth. We've got the Champlain
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Speaker 2: Valley Fair right behind it, August twenty eighth, that starts
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Speaker 2: in a few days. This weekend runs through September sixth
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Speaker 2: from Mount State Fair in Rutland September one through six
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Speaker 2: I'm seeing all kinds of stuff on social about that,
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Speaker 2: and of course the Tunbridge World's Fair seventeenth of September. Listen,
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Speaker 2: shout out this morning to Washington County mental Health. Mental
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Speaker 2: health are two of the biggest words that we hear
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Speaker 2: right now in the media, on social media, all over radio, TV,
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Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Two words that are really, really powerful, and
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Speaker 2: Washington County Mental Health is striving seven days a week,
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Speaker 2: literally around the clock, to help improve the quality of
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Speaker 2: mental health right here in our community, offering a variety
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Speaker 2: of support, options, treatments, and by the way, a huge
50:16
Speaker 2: list of career opportunities. If you get on their website
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Speaker 2: and just click on careers, it'll have the current listings
50:23
Speaker 2: if you would like to get involved with a family
50:27
Speaker 2: of people. And I say that because they really really
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Speaker 2: are a family of many many employees, and they've been
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Speaker 2: doing this for about sixty years, maybe even more than
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Speaker 2: sixty years now, might be sixty one, and affecting the
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Speaker 2: lives directly and indirectly of about ten thousand from honors
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Speaker 2: right here, just in the Central Vermont area for the
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Speaker 2: last sixty plus years.
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Speaker 1: Incredible.
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Speaker 2: Also a big shout out this morning to the Chamber
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Speaker 2: of Commerce right here in Central Vermont.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: You talk about putting your money where your mouth is,
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Speaker 2: that's the place to do it right there. We've been
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Speaker 2: a member of the Chamber of Commerce here. It aired
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Speaker 2: out for a long time, and we plan to be
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Speaker 2: for a very long time. If you're not a member,
51:16
Speaker 2: find out what you're missing. Central from Aunt Chamber of
51:18
Speaker 2: Commerce where business and opportunity meet. Just get on centralvt
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Speaker 2: dot com. Thanks Rex, thanks for coming in this morning.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate you. You wait, what am I waiting for?
51:30
Speaker 1: I need to congratulate my wife. She passed her freaking
51:35
Speaker 1: insurance agent license really to cheat icem Burrow. Yeah, she
51:39
Speaker 1: went and took the test the other day.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god.
51:41
Speaker 1: So we're gonna end this with a really funny story.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, we were over at Lake George. We go
51:45
Speaker 1: into this place called Allie's and it's a place where
51:48
Speaker 1: they buy out bankrupt stores. Second stuff like that. Well,
51:51
Speaker 1: we needed a new welcome Matt. Yeah, and there was
51:55
Speaker 1: a whole, there was a bin and they were all
51:57
Speaker 1: upside down, and so we said, all right, we're going
51:59
Speaker 1: to reach in, we're gonna grab one. Whatever one that
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Speaker 1: comes out, that's gonna be our neude. Welcome on our
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Speaker 1: front door.
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Speaker 2: No, what's its sake?
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Speaker 1: It's a pineapple.
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Speaker 2: Sit upside down? Are you wullshitting me?
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Speaker 1: No? I forgot to send you the picture of laughing
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Speaker 1: so fucking hard that serious. It's upside down, Yes, says welcome.
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Speaker 2: So when the ups guy comes over and make a delivery,
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Speaker 2: my daughter FedEx.
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Speaker 1: My daughter what she goes, what the fuck is going on? Guys?
52:45
Speaker 1: Are you a swingers? Now? And we just busted and laughed.
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Speaker 2: That's it. I'm coming over this afternoon.
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