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2022 USTFCCCA LIVE podcast: Phil Esposito-Mondo · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  Hey podcast listeners, we're super excited about December
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  11th at 5:30 Mountain Time Denver Time when we're going to
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  go live once again on YouTube to record a live Gil Connections
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  podcast. To celebrate, we're giving you
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  bonus clips every day until then of last year's 2022 guests that
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  came onto the live Gill Connections podcast.
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  Check it out. Look in the show notes below and
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  you'll see the URL. Check us out December 11th, 5:30
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  PM Denver time. I love it, man.
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  We just, we're just going to keep rolling.
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  We got someone else new coming into the show and we'll see who
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  we've got here. I know exactly what we've got
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  here. I'm really excited about this
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  one. This is going to be, this is
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  going to be interesting and really.
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  What I love is it's about giving value.
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  And today? Today next here on this podcast,
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  we're gonna talk all about value and value given.
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  So please introduce yourself to the audience.
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  Hello everyone, my name is Phil Esposito.
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  I am Mondo's business Development branding manager.
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  I love it. My title just got changed to
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  National Business Development Manager.
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  It was National Sales Manager, but the biz dev side is just
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  much more my passion, man. So I appreciate anybody who's
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  got this dev in there. Actually their title.
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  Phil, you wanted to talk about something specific and I'm gonna
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  put you in the spot because as I was previewing you, I'm a huge
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  like my. I try to revolve my life around
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  giving value and what you wanna talk about today is one of the
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  biggest best. Value given things that I've
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  seen from a company in our space in quite a while.
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  Why don't you tell me? Tell us what I'm talking about.
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  Yeah. That's great to hear.
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  So you know, at Mondo we are, we're very passionate about the
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  community. Obviously coaches play a huge
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  role in our business. We want to help coaches.
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  We want to help coaches help their athletes on and off the
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  service. So this past year we produced a
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  documentary on mental health in sports.
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  And you know, again, mental health, it's in our face.
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  We don't pretend to be the experts.
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  However, we want to be the thought leaders in this.
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  We want to help coaches. And so we put together a 45
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  minute documentary on mental health and sports.
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  We interviewed, we interviewed elite athletes, we interviewed
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  sports psychologists, and we interviewed super fights and so.
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  It was very, very interesting and we zeroed in on the role of
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  the fan and how much pressure these fans are putting on these
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  athletes. And so we had this documentary
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  air all throughout the country during May Mental Health
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  Awareness month. We had it on all the major
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  networks, ABCABCCBS and I've gotten some really great
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  feedback, especially from coaches and.
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  You know what we want to do is we want to create a resource.
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  So now this has become a resource who would So they will
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  in turn share it with their athletes and it really is a
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  conversation starter, you know and so we've we've sort of moved
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  on to phase two. We don't want to do a one off
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  and so we've moved on to phase two and we want to, we want to
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  bring the conversation into the schools and so we've created a
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  poster. Can I show you?
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  Yeah. Please.
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  That's what we got the video for.
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  There we go. Normally it's audio only and I'm
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  like, no, you can't show. Excellent.
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  So we've created this poster. Yeah, lift it up just a little
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  bit. There we go.
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  Yeah, Stay on track. Stay on track.
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  Stay on track. And the the track is an acronym
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  and these are these are suggestions you know for
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  athletes who are struggling. T take a moment or remember to
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  breathe a ask for help. C Call a friend.
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  And K keep moving forward and personally that's kind of my
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  favorite. Yeah, so we're hoping coaches
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  and we've got a couple of resources down below on the
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  bottom and we're hoping coaches will put these up in their
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  facilities. Again as a reminder that and we
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  know that all these athletes do struggle at some point, that
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  there is help out there. So let me ask you Phil, you know
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  Mondo obviously very well known for track service, produces some
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  of the top check service in the world.
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  You know, it's funny, you in our industry in general, not in
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  either of ours, but in general they talk about they sell socks
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  and jocks. That's kind of the, you know,
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  the sports marketing world, right?
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  You sell track servicing. Why?
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  Why do something like this? Why is mondo?
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  I mean, this is not, I know what you're putting into this
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  financially. This is not a cheap thing to do.
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  Why? Why you could?
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  If you didn't do this, no one would say, hey, how come Mondo
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  isn't working, helping us with mental health, but you choose to
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  do it without being asked? Yeah, it's our, it's our
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  passion, it's it's community give back.
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  It is again providing resources for coaches who are so vital in
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  our business. And right so you have the coach
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  and then you have the athlete. So if we can help the coach who
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  you know in turn can help their athlete.
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  That's what we're all that's, that's what we want to do.
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  And you know we've got, you know Mondo's a strong brand in the
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  track and field business, right. And so in the track and field
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  world, we feel like we have a role to play in this.
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  So it's something we're very passionate about.
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  We're always looking to partner with like minded entities and
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  we'll continue to do it. So is this in the umbrella of
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  Mondo Cares? Because I know there's been a
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  lot of events and activities. Through the mondo cares work.
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  Through Mondo, yes. I'm hoping to remember the Mondo
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  foot speed event here. Yes, of course I do.
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  Some of we were talking about it earlier.
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  Excellent. So we put together five or six
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  events and then unfortunately COVID, we hit a brick wall with
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  COVID, right. So we are going to be bringing
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  back that event. In 23.
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  Oh good. So we're very excited.
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  Are you? Going to do it here at USDCA in
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  2023, Is that the plan at least for?
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  Now, yeah. People are going to be very
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  excited about that. Yeah, that's the plan.
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  That's an amazing event. I mean, there's events and then
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  there's just the different people that that we're talking
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  about today. And that was a really fun event.
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  You know to have to to have 1500 track and field coaches in that
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  ballroom watching these young coaches compete.
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  So the goal is to is to do it again.
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  I love it. We'll wrap this up.
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  Phil. Where is someone's listening or
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  watching this right now? This will also be on the podcast
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  later on throughout the year of 2023.
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  Where can someone go to find more information about Tell me
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  the name again of the film it was.
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  I'm OK. I'm not.
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  OK, I'm fine. Not really.
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  I'm fine. Not really, yes.
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  Where can someone go to learn more about that?
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  The posters? Where can someone go to find out
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  more? Information, so you can go to,
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  you can go to the Mondo website, you can go to mondocares.com and
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  obviously. All our social.
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  Outlets. So Google, Mondo cuz that's the
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  easiest way. Or mondocares.com.
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  That's right. I love it man.
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  You should take a time out right now and go check that out.
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  I think it's extremely valuable. Again, the value that you're
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  giving coaches cuz to me you hit the nail in the head and you
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  said. Without these guys and gals, you
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  and I don't do anything. We could do something else
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  actually, right? Mondo doesn't exist.
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  The Gil doesn't exist. You know, we need to be uplifted
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  and honoring these young men and women and these old.
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  As they continue building the greatest sport in the world, so
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  just love that what you're doing it was an easy you know when we
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  we talked about doing this in the podcast 100% easy.
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  This is a way that we can hopefully help fan the flames
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  and and have more awareness out there for this very important
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  topic that you're talking about and these very important.
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  People love what you're doing, right?
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  Your passion for track and field And no, just super, super glad
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  to be here. I love it, man.
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  Well, even for you, we got to end with a selfie.
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  All right, Phil. Thank you so much, man.
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  Sir, hey, appreciate it. Pleasure, Mike.
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  Love to my friend Jim, man. John, it's our in, Jim.
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  Absolutely. Thanks, man.
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  Appreciate you. I just love all the people.
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  Yeah. You can't steal the headphones,
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  Phil, all that good that he does.
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  And he was trying to take my headphones away from me here at
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  the desk. So that wasn't very nice.
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  But mondocares.com is very nice. You should go check that out.
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  And it really is great for your athletes and.
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  I mean, for the posters, David, you talked about that, I'd go to
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  mondocares.com and check that out there.
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  And if they don't have the button or something to get it,
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  I'm sure there's an e-mail for you to go Check it out there.
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  So world records, Shortest Gill Athletics Connections podcast
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  ever. Check us out December 11th 530
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  Denver Co Rocky Mountain Central Time.
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  Check us out on YouTube in the link below in the show notes.