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Jose Ortiz of the VT Coyotes, Chrissy Searles of the CVMC Support Staff bargaining Team and Donny Brooke Fight Promotions Professional MMA C · Aired Out

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  Speaker 2: there's so much going on. And we're gonna chat with
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  Speaker 2: Chrissy here in just a little bit. Christy Searles, who
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  Speaker 2: is helping to organize this big rally in Barrie tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: We're going to chat with her in just a few minutes.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know if you saw yesterday, this is buzz.
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  Speaker 2: This has exploded on Facebook everywhere. The VT Coyotes just
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  Speaker 2: made the announcement of their first official player on the
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  Speaker 2: roster for the team. It has been decided the press
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  Speaker 2: conference is set for April fourth at the Barry Auditorium.
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  Speaker 2: That's next Friday at five pm. Jose Ortez, Welcome to
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  Speaker 2: the Coyotes. Welcome to Vermont. It is an absolute pleasure
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  Speaker 2: to have you as part of the Green Mountain State
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  Speaker 2: VT Coyotes. Where are you from? Tell us a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about you? Where are you from and all that
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  Speaker 2: good stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I was born in New York, raised in Philadelphia basically
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  Speaker 4: all my life.
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  Speaker 2: You were quite the high school ballplayer, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I actually got my jersey retired in my high school.
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  Speaker 4: And my high school had over twenty Division one players
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  Speaker 4: over the years. And it hasn't been around that long either.
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  Speaker 4: It's actually it's closed down now, but yeah, it was
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  Speaker 4: a high school that was around probably like ten fifteen years.
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  Speaker 2: What happened after high school, I had a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Of Division one offers. I end up touring my ACL
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  Speaker 4: which set me back. So I ended up dropping from
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  Speaker 4: a Division one athlete to a Division two athlete. I
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  Speaker 4: went to college, I ended up playing Division two. Then
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  Speaker 4: I transferred a couple of times, transferred two times, end
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  Speaker 4: up going to a Division III school that was literally
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  Speaker 4: ten minutes for my house, which is the only reason
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  Speaker 4: why I went there. But you know, I ended up
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  Speaker 4: liking the school, and I decided not to go back
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  Speaker 4: to the Division two level and just finish out my
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  Speaker 4: last two years of college playing at the school I
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  Speaker 4: was at, which was only ten minutes. So it just
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  Speaker 4: it worked out for me.
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  Speaker 2: You traveled around the world playing basketball.
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  Speaker 4: Correct, And this is how I pay the bills. This
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  Speaker 4: is how you know I'll make a living for myself
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  Speaker 4: after college. I ended up, you know, making a highlight
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  Speaker 4: tape of my college season. I got lucky enough to
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  Speaker 4: get an agent and he gave me my first opportunity
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  Speaker 4: in Mexico. I ended up going to Mexico. I ended
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  Speaker 4: up having a good season from there. It was like
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  Speaker 4: a domino effect.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I played one good season in Mexico. Then other countries
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  Speaker 4: started calling me. You know, that's just how it is.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you have a good season and word gets
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  Speaker 4: around town and people started hearing your name, and other
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  Speaker 4: country started seeing what you're doing. Because you know, everything
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  Speaker 4: is posted online, so the numbers are there for you
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  Speaker 4: to see. And you know, they just started calling my
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  Speaker 4: agent and started calling me. So, you know, from Mexico,
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  Speaker 4: my courage is opened up. And I ended up playing
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  Speaker 4: in ten different countries ever since.
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  Speaker 2: I'm seeing here the list you get. We got China,
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  Speaker 2: El Salvador, Nicaragua.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Nicaragua, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, obviously, the States. I
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  Speaker 4: went to Europe. I was in Germany. You know, I've been,
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  Speaker 4: I've been, I've been around, I've been around. I was
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  Speaker 4: in Bolivia, Argentina. So you know, I've been I've been around,
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  Speaker 4: I've been around the block. As you can.
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  Speaker 2: Say, I'm guessing that this is kind of the inception
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  Speaker 2: of your professional basketball career.
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  Speaker 4: This is uh, you're talking to a ten year vet
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  Speaker 4: that's thirty four years old, will be thirty five next
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  Speaker 4: season when it's when the league starts. So you're talking
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  Speaker 4: to a veteran that basically the only thing I did
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  Speaker 4: do was make it to the NBA. You know, I
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  Speaker 4: didn't played in all types of levels overseas professionally, from
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  Speaker 4: the high level to the low level. You know, I
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  Speaker 4: didn't played in basically leagues that I already wanted to
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  Speaker 4: play in growing up. You know, a dream of mine's
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  Speaker 4: was to play overseas. It was never to play in
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  Speaker 4: the NBA. I just wanted to travel the world. I
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  Speaker 4: wanted to, you know, meet new people. I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: get out of Philadelphia and see what the world had
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  Speaker 4: to offer. My dream growing up, literally since I was
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  Speaker 4: a kid, was to play overseas. And I figured, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I had a ten year career. It's my tenth year now,
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  Speaker 4: already been in ten countries. You know, obviously there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot more other countries I've ever been through.
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  Speaker 2: But I take my resume and now you are headed
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  Speaker 2: from Philadelphia to the North.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean Vermon is like a second home for me.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm gonna give you a little history. I
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  Speaker 4: got Vermont. Actually I was going to go to Vermont
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  Speaker 4: in college. You know, Andy is a childhood friend that
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  Speaker 4: I that I met playing basketball. I actually try to
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  Speaker 4: get him to come to my high school, you know,
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  Speaker 4: without even really meeting him in person, because just the
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  Speaker 4: numbers he was pulling up was amazing, and so I
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  Speaker 4: try to get him become his senior year. I met
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  Speaker 4: him his senior year of high school. Then you know,
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  Speaker 4: we end up playing against each other things like that.
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  Speaker 4: He end up going to Vermia, end up going to
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  Speaker 4: school in Philadelphia. He was trying to get me to
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  Speaker 4: go to remind play with him in college. It didn't
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  Speaker 4: work out, just like it didn't work out with him
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  Speaker 4: coming to my high school. And it's just crazy because
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  Speaker 4: I used to always go to Vermont every summer, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just to visit him, and just you know, I have
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  Speaker 4: a couple of friends out there that I end up
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  Speaker 4: you know, getting close with, So you know, I was
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  Speaker 4: always in Vermont, and you know, Andy has his tournaments
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  Speaker 4: that he runs. He's been running there for about what
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  Speaker 4: ten years now. You know, I used to always go
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  Speaker 4: to his tournaments and play. You know, it's a good
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  Speaker 4: tournament to go and compete, So you know, Vermont is
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  Speaker 4: definitely like a second home. You know. I'm not new
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  Speaker 4: to Vermont, and that's why I'm excited too, because I'm
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  Speaker 4: excited to go back to a place that you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm used to to go, and I haven't been there
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  Speaker 4: a long time, you know, over like maybe four years,
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  Speaker 4: you know, because of my my crazy schedule going around
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  Speaker 4: the world, and you know, whenever I'm not playing, I'm
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  Speaker 4: just focused on being home with my family and kids,
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  Speaker 4: you know, because obviously when i'm overseas, i'm not I'm
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  Speaker 4: missing that time of spending time with them. I don't
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  Speaker 4: get that with them. You know, face time ain't the
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  Speaker 4: same in person. So you know, when I'm home, it's
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  Speaker 4: just strictly family, you know. And then when I'm not home,
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  Speaker 4: obviously I'm working. So you know, I mean, I know
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  Speaker 4: Andy for a while and I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's like everything comes to full circle. You know. I
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  Speaker 4: was trying to get him to my high school. He
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  Speaker 4: didn't come to try to give me to his college.
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  Speaker 4: You know, fortunately I didn't go. And well now we're here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, this is a real honor for us. And
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  Speaker 2: how excited are we to be announcing the very first
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  Speaker 2: official player of the VT Coyotes. This is amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's a blessing. It's a blessing. You know. I
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  Speaker 4: appreciate first and foremost opportunity that that Anthony Andy, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and the and the whole teams given me, because I
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  Speaker 4: know that this is not just something that you should
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  Speaker 4: take lightly. You know, with this comes a big responsibility.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm coming in here to not only have
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  Speaker 4: an impact, but to lead this team, you know, for
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  Speaker 4: first year. You know, it's about winning with me. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm a veteran. You know, I don't have the resume.
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  Speaker 4: I have to just come and play, you know, like
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  Speaker 4: you said, what makes me want to play in this league?
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  Speaker 4: This will be the first time I'm in this league.
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  Speaker 4: This will be the first time I get to play
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  Speaker 4: in the States. I've been playing ten the last ten
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  Speaker 4: years overseas, and it's hard for my family to watch
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  Speaker 4: me play. I mean, they watch me on TV and
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  Speaker 4: things like that, but it's not the same being in person.
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  Speaker 4: So this gives me an opportunity for my family to
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  Speaker 4: come watch me play, for me to start a different.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter in my career.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm I got another four or five more
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  Speaker 4: years easily, but unfortunately, I don't want to play four
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  Speaker 4: or five more years. I think that I got a
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  Speaker 4: couple more years in me and I just wanted to
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  Speaker 4: take a break from the overseas life and experience something different,
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  Speaker 4: something new. The ABA is a great league, has a
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  Speaker 4: great history behind it. You know, I have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of friends that play in the ABA. I never got
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  Speaker 4: to play in the ABA, obviously because I play overseas.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, I'm excited. I'm excited for this opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited to lead this team. And it's whatever I
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  Speaker 4: could do is I don't necessarily got to do with scoring.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that's the best part of my game. But
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  Speaker 4: I'm the type of player that's going to do whatever
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  Speaker 4: it's necessary to win. You know, maybe one game I
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  Speaker 4: only got to score ten points, but then maybe I
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  Speaker 4: have to stop the best play on the other team,
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  Speaker 4: or rebound the ball, or you know, be a playmaker.
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  Speaker 4: Whatever the game dictates for us to win. That's what
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna do, you know, And I'm excited. I can't wait.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I wish it was starting tomorrow, but I
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  Speaker 4: feel like it's gonna be something good that's coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Jose, Welcome to the ABA, Welcome to Fremont. I can't
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  Speaker 2: wait to meet you.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate you, my brother. I can't wait to get
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  Speaker 4: this ball rolling. I can't wait to build this relationship
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  Speaker 4: with you. I know we're gonna have, you know, a
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  Speaker 4: couple of little things coming up in the future. So uh,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's gonna it's gonna be fun. We're gonna
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  Speaker 4: have a ball. It's gonna be a great season to remember,
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  Speaker 4: and you know we're gonna enjoy ourselves. Thank you, brother,
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 4: You have a great day. Man, And once again, man,
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  Speaker 4: thank you for this opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: What an honor to have him on.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I just uh, I can't wait. And I know
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  Speaker 2: we we went a few minutes early this morning, uh
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  Speaker 2: to squeeze Jose on. But man, I can't wait to
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  Speaker 2: meet him. And do not forget a week from today.
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  Speaker 2: The fourth is gonna be that press release at the
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  Speaker 2: the press conference, I should say at the very auditorium.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be amazing shifting gears. We have a community
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  Speaker 2: rally that is going to be taking place tomorrow. I
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  Speaker 2: know that you have heard the the CVMC support Bargaining
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  Speaker 2: team on the air with me in the past. I
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  Speaker 2: think Zoe has been on with us in the past.
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  Speaker 2: But this morning, Chrissy Searles joins us. Good morning, Chrissy,
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  Speaker 2: good morning.
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  Speaker 5: How are you doing.
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  Speaker 2: JD doing very well. Listen, this is such an important
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  Speaker 2: event tomorrow. It takes place at noon at City Hall Park.
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  Speaker 2: This is an opportunity for our community to come out
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  Speaker 2: and wear some red and show their support for so
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  Speaker 2: many staff members up at CVMC. What's what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: What is this all about?
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  Speaker 3: So we have just you know, established our union in
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  Speaker 3: the past six months and we're in the middle of
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  Speaker 3: bargaining still our contract and coming up with a fair contract.
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  Speaker 3: It's it has to do with wages. It has to
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  Speaker 3: do with you know, livable wages. It has to do
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  Speaker 3: with safe staffing ratios, workplace violence issues. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: proposed like having days off for when you've been experienced
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  Speaker 3: violence at work, all these things. But we we need
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  Speaker 3: the community support right now. You know, management still hasn't
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  Speaker 3: really met us where we need them to meet us.
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  Speaker 3: And so yeah, so we're having a rally and we'd
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  Speaker 3: love for everybody to come out and support us.
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  Speaker 2: This is not the first rally, right, No, we had
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  Speaker 2: we had a.
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  Speaker 3: Honkin wave, but at the hospital we've done several things.
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  Speaker 2: But this is uh, yeah, that that that Honkin' wave.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't able to be there for that, but I
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  Speaker 2: heard that it was tremendous.
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  Speaker 3: It was we we we started the honkin wave for
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  Speaker 3: when they decided to shut down our in patient psychiatry unit,
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  Speaker 3: which really stinks for our community members.
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  Speaker 5: That utilize that. Still, uh, it's still really a hard
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  Speaker 5: pill to swallow. That's a lot more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot more than than it stinks. That's
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  Speaker 2: like really bad. That's super super super unfortunate.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: We have a lot of people that suffered for mental
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  Speaker 3: health in our community and you know, they need support
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  Speaker 3: and just never understood taking those supports away.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's yeah, we had a good turnout.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's it's about wages, it's about safe staffing, ratios.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, listen, this is our this is our hospital
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  Speaker 2: right here in our backyard. And yes there's often some
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  Speaker 2: runs to UVM, there's often runs over to Dartmouth. But
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  Speaker 2: when when there's a real serious problem we need to go,
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  Speaker 2: we need to stay right here in our backyard.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Now we need to pay people, you know, livable wages.
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  Speaker 3: You know, people are busting their butts and and not
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  Speaker 3: making ends meet, you know, if you have to scramble
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  Speaker 3: to be able to you know, I get that things
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  Speaker 3: are expensive, but if you if you're working at our
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  Speaker 3: community hospital, you should be paid accordingly, you know, dealing
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  Speaker 3: with people's lives on a regular and and to not
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  Speaker 3: make enough and have to worry about where your groceries
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  Speaker 3: are coming from or whether to pay your your power bill,
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  Speaker 3: which everyone's gonna hold out.
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  Speaker 5: You know, that's it shouldn't be. That shouldn't be a question.
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  Speaker 2: Green Mountain. Uh what is it? The the careboard? Right?
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  Speaker 5: Yep?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 2: What are they saying? Chrissy?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't really get into a whole lot
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  Speaker 3: of stuff with the Green Mountain Careboard.
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  Speaker 5: It's more technical stuff, to be honest with you. They
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  Speaker 5: I think they're you know, from what I've read, they feel.
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  Speaker 3: That uh, you know, we we do deserve things, but
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  Speaker 3: they they have a lot of uh information about the
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  Speaker 3: fiscal year budgets.
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  Speaker 5: And stuff that I don't. I don't really have a
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  Speaker 5: lot of information, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I And I know that you've you've heard a lot
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  Speaker 2: of devil's advocacy here that there's there's always two sides
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  Speaker 2: to the coin here, and I note that that. Listen.
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  Speaker 2: I know that we're kind of hitting a bee's nest here.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we've we've heard that that the medical field,
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  Speaker 2: that that the hospitals have become a monopoly. We we've
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  Speaker 2: also heard that a lot of hospitals are struggling and closing.
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  Speaker 2: But we've also heard from a lot of people that
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  Speaker 2: just man, it's like the the price tag too to
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  Speaker 2: health if you're lucky enough to even get it, if
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  Speaker 2: you're lucky enough to get in the queue to go
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  Speaker 2: see a doctor. Just the the the emergency room alone,
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  Speaker 2: Chrissy has been revamped to what what defines an emergency
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  Speaker 2: now and and get you know, patients are getting shifted
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  Speaker 2: around into into holding areas and maybe even transferred to
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  Speaker 2: other hospitals. I mean, it's it's a little crazy up there.
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  Speaker 5: It absolutely is.
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  Speaker 3: It absolutely is and when you know, when you're presidents
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  Speaker 3: of your hospitals and and uh directors are getting bonuses,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and your hospital staffer are drowning.
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  Speaker 5: There's there's a problem.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: So I think that we need to prioritize what's important here,
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the.
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  Speaker 3: Burnout rate, you know, the burnout people are burnt out
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  Speaker 3: because they're working. You know, we work twelve hour shifts
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  Speaker 3: and you know, staff are just they're tired. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we've been really really busy. And you know, because staff
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  Speaker 3: are tired, because staff are burnout, we have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of call outs. Because of that, people they need to
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  Speaker 3: take care of themselves. But you know, we don't have
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: the staff or you know, and even you know, like
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: I told people, being appreciated goes a long way as well,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: getting paid for your service goes a long way.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: But in the end, we're all compassionate and love the
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: job we do, and we love to take care of
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: our community. I mean, we're all about our community. Sure,
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: so yeah, some things need to change.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: We're asking for the public to be present tomorrow at
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: twelve noon to come out and show support and wear
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: red if you can, horn and if if you can
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: get out of the car and and get over and
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: rub a shoulder against one of our healthcare workers right
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: here in our community and let them know that you
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: you support them, you're going to stand behind him. Yep, yep, Chrissy,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: thanks for coming on with us. I'm going to be
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: paying attention to what you guys do, and you're always
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: invited to hop on and share the airways with us.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Always awesome.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Jady. We all appreciate it. I
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: can speak for everybody at our union. Thank you.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: You got it. Uh wow, what a morning. We're We're
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: gonna literally drop the clutch now and shift gears. This
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: guy who is on your your monitor right now did
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: the unspeakable last weekend. He did something that I am
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: not entirely sure. And you know, because you been listening
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: to me, you know that I am the furthest thing
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: from an MMA expert. But I don't know if this
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: has ever been done before where someone has come out
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: for a title fight like this for the Donnybrook Fight
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Promotions Professional MMA Championship and knocked somebody out his opponent,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Ryan Sanders in a matter of not minutes but seconds.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Chris Perrault did just that Saturday night, and if you
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: were not there, you missed a historic night. Inside the
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Bury Auditorium, the crowd erupted. It was electric. Everyone was
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: out of their seat. I almost tripped over myself. I
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: just could not contain the emotion of seeing what Chris
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: had done. Welcome to the studios, my brother. I am
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: so so glad you're here. How's it going, man, I'm
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: doing well. I just are you as Are you as
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: stunned as everyone else?
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: I was pretty stunned, honestly, didn't feel real for a
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: little bit. I was like all that, all that time,
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: I put in all that extra work, and yes, it
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: was over in the blink of an eye.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: One of the things I was I was going to
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: say to you this morning, is you know how much
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: how much pain are you in?
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Are you limping? Are you walking around with with bruises on?
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: It never got to that point.
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: No, I was fortunate enough not to get hit at
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: all during this fight. I was expecting to get a
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: little beat up, but it didn't go that way. I guess.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you have a lot of local fan favorites here,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: not just inside the Granite City. MMA gym uh, but
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: just throughout and not just Washington County, but far beyond
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: our borders of our counties. Here, you have really become
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: a namesake for not only Granite City MMA and donnic
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Brook Fight Promotions, but in the Northeast regionally. Chris Perrault
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: uh has got his name etched in. Man, You're you
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: are literally kicking ass. How did you see any of
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: this coming? Was just a dream of yours.
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's always been a dream to be at
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: this level. But I honest, like three years ago when
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: I it was about three years ago when I walked
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: into Granite City, Mme, I didn't know if I was
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: really going to fight or not, and I didn't expect
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: to be where I am today. But I definitely have
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: put in the work and feel like I deserve it.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Wait a second, how many years ago?
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: It's probably been like three maybe four years since I
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: walked into Grand City. But I've been training like my
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: whole life, wrestling and stuff, and I've fought. It was
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: like ten years ago. I did a couple of fights
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: when I probably shouldn't have been fighting. Just did it
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: to do it.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: In a ring in an organized event. Yeah, Okay, dude,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, man, there is you know, and
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Big Kenny has got me on camera just pulling my
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: hair out, just screaming. What just happened? I said to him,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: I said to him during that that other fight was
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: who was it? Uh? The Sosa? Yes, I told him,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I said, Kenny, pay attention here, because some of these
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: fights will really surprise you and not necessarily go the
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: way you think that they're gonna go. So head up,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: eyes open, pay attention here. Watch watch what's gonna happen.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: And that was before you even stepped into the ring.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: And what was it?
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I heard fourteen seconds, but I mean I've gone back
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: and watched it and it's more like I'm getting like
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: six seven seconds. What what was it?
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well they said it was fourteen seconds, but it
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: probably could have got stopped a little sooner, but he
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: did start to block a little bit and then yeah,
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: the last couple finish it off. But yeah, ten to
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: fourteen seconds, I guess.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, tell us, I mean obviously you were pretty amped up,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: you were you, Yeah, worked very hard for this. What
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: were you told about your opponent, Ryan Sanders I had
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: ahead of this fight?
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well I knew he was the number one ranked
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: fighter in New England. He second in the Northeast, had
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: like thirty four pro fights, and that was my fourth
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: pro fight, and so I knew it was gonna I
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: thought it was going to be a war, and like,
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: I knew there was a chance of like at that level,
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: it's whoever makes the first mistake, and so I knew
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: there was always a chance that I might not walk
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: out of there with a victory, but I definitely was
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: going for it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: And you you, you got in there. You guys exchanged
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: a couple of blows, not met if really any Yeah
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: from him. What happened there was you you clocked one
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: on him and you got him.
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Well, I think he was underestimating my stand up
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: because everyone thinks I'm a wrestler and there's not much
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: video of me striking with people. But since I started
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: going to Granite City, I've been doing some privates with
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: our coach, Lucas John and we've been just trying to
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: work on the striking and get it nice and crisp
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: and quick. And he had his hands down a little
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: bit and yeah, and his chin was up a little
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: bit and he was kind of I don't know, walking
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: around a little cocky in there and wasn't ready for it.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: You have what's impressive for me as as someone on
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: the outside looking in and not necessarily understanding everything that's happening,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: but understanding the basics in a sense where your brain
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: has milliseconds to make a decision and to capitalize on
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: it as quickly as possible. You if you missed that
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: window of opportunity, Uh, it's over. You're you're You've missed
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: it and you may not get it back. But like
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: you said, he let his hands down for a second
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: and you got in there and you popped him one, bro. Yeah,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: and it took him off of his feet and he
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: went down and then you had to uh finish the
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: deal at that point.
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah, go to the ref stops you?
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Yes? Now when they when they so? What are you
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: hearing in there?
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: What?
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: What did they yell at you? Stop?
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: I don't know, Like, honestly, I'm so in the moment
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: when I'm in there, and but I watched it back
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: and I got like the ref kind of jumped in
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: between and I just hopped right off and just knew
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: it was over.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, the crowd went absolutely insane and you were
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: pacing around the inside of that cage, just absolutely stoked
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: and and you knew. Did you get a chance to
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: speak with Ryan afterwards?
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: I was hanging out for a while after and uh
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: like at the very end of the night, there wasn't
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: many people there, and he actually had come up and
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: he was with his coaches and he came and congratulated me,
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: and he was a little down, but he was actually
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: pretty respectful and even when he first showed up, he
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: shook my hand and introduced himself.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: But before the fight, yeah, way before the fight.
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so he was actually pretty respectful. But he was
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: also so his fans are a little more cocky than him,
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: but he was a little too confident that he was
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: gonna walk through the fight, also saying he was one
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: hundred going to win the fight.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: And saw that on media night Friday night that that
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: he said this, there was a very high level of
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: confidence you and Lucas and Rex are also You're via
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: a very humble guy, but there is a level of
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: confidence that that comes out of your proven performances. And
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: we hear it from Lucas, we hear it from Rex,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: But is there something about you that says if this
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: guy from Bengor, Maine, who is so good, has such
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: a great track record that he can be so confident
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: but yet have a stunner come his way in around
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: ten seconds or so. That that's something that could possibly
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: potentially also happened to me. Chris Parral.
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, honestly, way back in high school, I had
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: a moment where I was a state champion wrestler and
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: I was doing a summer tournament and I it was
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: like around Robin, I was beating everyone, and then there
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: was the worst kid in their bracket and I was
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: I went in cocky, and he ended up catching me
• 32:40
  Speaker 7: and pinning me. And I learned then, like, you can't
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: underestimate anyone, no matter what skill level, and it just
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: happens to be He learned that later in his career,
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: and I learned that earlier in my career.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Wow. So you you you have you're at peace with that,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: you have you have an understanding that there's a difference
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: maybe between being cocky and or arrogant and also having
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: a lot of confidence. There's a fine line between the two. Yeah.
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I just know anyone has a chance no matter what,
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: Like it's a fight, any anyone has a chance. It
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: just takes one mistake.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: And did he speak with with you at all about
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: his mistake.
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: He didn't say anything about his mistake. He just said
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: that that was that was a hard punch, and he
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: didn't say too much, just congratulated me, But he didn't
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: say anything about a mistake.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Or what could he have I mean you, you, you
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: got him off his feet, and then you you, you
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: got on him and and took care of him. But
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: what what could he have done differently so that that
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: fight maybe lasted a little bit longer?
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well you can hear his coach in the beginning
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: say keep it tight, as in like keep it tight, guard,
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: keep your hands up. And he had them down a
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: little bit like I didn't. I wasn't even thinking like
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: hands are down, like when we practice, we just drill, drill,
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: drill and build these reactions. And then I just reacted
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: in there and saw it without knowing I saw it.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Lucas is you know, he's always saying about you, and
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: I don't want to speak for him, but he always
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: he's very happy, he's very proud, but he also always
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: has said about you. Chris just did what he trains
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: to do. I mean this is why you guys are
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: in the gym as much as you are. You just
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: did instinctually what you've been trained to do. Yeah, react quickly. Yep,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: My god, man, what happens with Ryan Sanders?
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: Now?
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: I don't know he's at that Like he's a little older.
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: He was thirty seven, so I feel like he doesn't
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: have too much left in his career. But he was
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: definitely still at a high level. Like there's like I
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: don't think he was out of his prime or any
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: of that when I thought him like he was in
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: great shape. He was fighting at a high level his
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: entire career. But I don't know. I think that one
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: might have humbled him a little bit and made him
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: realize maybe it might be time to move on. But
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: maybe not. We'll see. I think he loves fighting so
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: much so that he'll probably step in there again and
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: try to end on a good note.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: You think so, yeah, you think there could be a rematch.
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: I don't know if there would be a rematch. Honestly,
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: I'm trying to move on to bigger and better things,
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: and I mean, if it happens, then it happens. But sure,
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: I'm just trying to keep on climbing the ladder and
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: seeing where I can.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Get, but also also training to prepare for the war
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: to be in that cage for a long time. What
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: was it five five minute rounds?
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah, twenty five minute fight, yeah. And then you see
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: the people getting tired in their six minute fights before that,
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: and after one two minute round and there people are
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: getting tired. So it definitely is. And I haven't had Like,
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: I'm pretty confident in my cardio and I've been working
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: on my cardio a lot, but I haven't had time
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: to really see if how my cardio is because of
• 36:41
  Speaker 7: the first round finishes.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Sure I have I have overheard and I've heard it
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: out of the mouth of rex And and Lucas. You
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: know that at some point you're you're gonna get humbled.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: But I've heard these guys say it's too late. He's
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: already humble. That's just who you are, you, that's just
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: who you are as a man, your your personality. You're
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: just a humble dude. You're you're full of respect. Now
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: we get in the ring, we're gonna we're gonna fight.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: We get in the cage. Uh, that's a whole different thing.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: You You've got like some multiple personalities going on. Bro, Yeah,
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Jesus what I mean obviously, I want to know what's
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: next for you.
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: Uh, we're just waiting and seeing, like uh, honestly, Rex
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: is looking for some people. And then if we get
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: like a right call from another promotion with a matchup
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: that makes sense, we'll jump on it. But there is
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: a chance I might be back in Barry in June,
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: but we'll uh, we'll see. We we don't quite know yet,
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: but I'm always staying ready. So I went to practice
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: that following Monday and just won't stop.
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: June seventh. Yeah, battle in Burry seventeenth or seventeen at
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: the Barry Auditorium Donnybrook Fight Promotions dot com. If you
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: want to grab tickets, I don't know what even when
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: the tickets are going on sale, they might even be
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: already on sale. I don't know. But that is whether
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: or not you get in the cage or not. You'll
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: you'll be there, Yeah, I'll be there either way, and
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Granite City MMA will will be there. Any other kudos
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: to any other Granite City MMA fighters that you want
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: to throw some love at.
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: Him, I mean just our coach Lucas John obviously and
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: then Rex, he's he's in there training hard to doing
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: free classes, helping the community.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Out, loves the kids.
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and then everyone that just have everyone that trains there,
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: everyone like everyone I train with everyone, hobbyists, kids like,
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: they're all in there with me, training with me, getting
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: better with me. And they all put in the rounds
• 39:02
  Speaker 7: with me. So everyone's it's quite the community we have.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Up there, big ed Uh he you you guys have
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: traded a few blows.
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah, no, we we always go to war and gotten
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: each other a lot better. And uh, but it's a
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: mutual respect.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: We But and how about Sophia Haynes.
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: She she's gonna she's gonna make it fire. She's definitely
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: got a great skill set for the amount of years
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: that she's been doing it too. And she'll stand, she'll
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: go in there and she'll fight with the big boys
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: and hold her own.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: So we start fighting with Matt uh not too long ago,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: her brother. What did what did Sophia say to you after?
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: I don't know. There was so many people that came
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: up to me after, but everyone congratulated me.
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: Sophia actually made cookies for the team, and so I
• 39:53
  Speaker 7: got to eat some cookies and stuff after they're pretty good.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: And what did you do afterwards?
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: Uh, went back to the gym with the team. We
• 40:01
  Speaker 7: all got pizzas and stuff, and honestly, someone offered me
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: a beer and I grabbed a soda because I've just
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: been craving junk food and soda ever since.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Good Man, Yeah, good Man. I love the fact that
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: I love the fact that you guys regroup afterwards, regardless
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: of what happens in the cage back at Granite City MMA,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: and you all come together as a family and talk
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: about it and celebrate and talk about what could have
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: been better, what was fantastic, because a lot of you
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: just aren't old enough to get out, to get out
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: to a bar and to you know, for Lucas to say, hey, man,
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: you know, this is part of our tradition. We're getting
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: a couple of pizzas. We're going to go back to
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: where it begins for all of us, our facility, our home,
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: what we're most familiar with, and sit around and and
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: chat as a family without having taken a night off,
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: a well deserved night off, without without training to do that.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: I think that's really cool, and I think that says
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: a lot about Lucas.
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, we go there win or lose. Like, we
• 41:21
  Speaker 7: had another teammate fight that night, Quinn Smith, and he's
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: an absolute animal, and he had the roughest fight camp
• 41:28
  Speaker 7: you could possibly have and took on one of the
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: toughest opponents you could possibly take on last second and
• 41:35
  Speaker 7: he was beating the crap out of him. Just made
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: a couple of little mistakes, but he's at that young
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: age where he's gonna now's the time to learn those
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: mistakes and he has a bright future.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Also that fight, Quinn, by the way, he he looked amazing.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: I mean he looks like he was in top top shape. Yeah,
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: physically and mentally. Yep. What happened with that fight, Well.
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: I ended up watching it back and he was out
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: wrestling the guy, out wrestling the guy even doing really
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: good with his strike and the guy was like a
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: top notch striker. And the guy had just won a
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: title for the ne Ef like a couple of weeks
• 42:15
  Speaker 7: before that, and so it was honestly like a fight
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: that no one would really take on. And Quinn his
• 42:23
  Speaker 7: second fight was just like, I'll do it because he
• 42:25
  Speaker 7: wants to be at the top, and he showed that
• 42:28
  Speaker 7: he's already at that level. He just needs to work
• 42:31
  Speaker 7: in a couple of little things. He was doing really good,
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: just was a little too fast paced. Once he learns
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: how to relax a tiny bit, he's gonna be deadly,
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: do you amen.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, I mean, watch that name
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: because he's I can't wait to see him come back. Yeah,
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: I just can't wait to see him back in the cage.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: Do you get a chance to ye with with Quinn
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: about this or do you leave that up to Lucas
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: to talk about to analyze his performance?
• 43:07
  Speaker 7: I mean our coach. I'm sure they've already talked about it.
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: I haven't. I haven't talked with Quinn too much about it,
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: but he like he was definitely talked with it with
• 43:19
  Speaker 7: our coach, and our coach, Lucas is gonna definitely work
• 43:23
  Speaker 7: on what he needs to work on, like he does
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: that with all of us. He finds the things we
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: need work on, and then he will do what he
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: can do to fix it.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Huge respect for Lucas and the way he gets
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: I gotta say it, because that's what he does. He
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: gets in your head and makes sure that you understand
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: how serious this is, and it's not just your your
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: training at granted City MMA, but also outside of the gym,
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: in your life. The decisions you make, decisions you make
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: on what you eat, what you drink, all of that. Yeah,
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: mental tough.
• 44:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we can always call him. Like honestly, that night,
• 44:14
  Speaker 7: I wasn't feeling that good from the food I was eating,
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: and I had called him at midnight, and you picked
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: the phone right up and gave me some recommendations and
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: ended up getting through it and feeling better the next day.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: You guys have took a little trip down to Massachusetts
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: not too long ago.
• 44:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that was September. Yep, September.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: What happened?
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: That was supposed to be my biggest test before the
• 44:44
  Speaker 7: Sanders fight, but I took on. He was a little older,
• 44:48
  Speaker 7: but he also had over twenty pro fights. He was
• 44:51
  Speaker 7: a four to three black belt in Brazilian jujits to
• 44:55
  Speaker 7: I think he was even like a world champion at
• 44:57
  Speaker 7: some point in real That was supposed to to be
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: my biggest test, and I went down there and ended
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: up getting it done in the first round.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Minute twenty eight.
• 45:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, minute yeah, minute twenty eight thirty eight, yeah, yeah,
• 45:13
  Speaker 7: minute thirty eight or something like that.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how did you? How did you? How'd you beat them?
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: Uh?
• 45:20
  Speaker 7: That was tko. Uh we ended up going to the
• 45:23
  Speaker 7: ground and uh I ended up trapping his arm and
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: just throwing punches where he couldn't block, so he couldn't
• 45:30
  Speaker 7: really move to the ref had to stop it.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Is there any part of you that is disappointed that
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: you didn't get a chance to utilize what you have
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: been training so hard at Granted City MMA to do
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: you fight camps and weeks and weeks and weeks months
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: of training and hard work where you got a great
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: shot in and you won the fight and that's remarkable.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: But is there any part of you that was like, oh, man,
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: I just wish that I could have won it, maybe
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: a different way, maybe after a couple of rounds of
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: a war.
• 46:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, I mean I prefer the quick and easy ones.
• 46:26
  Speaker 7: But I know, I know at some point there's gonna
• 46:29
  Speaker 7: be a war in there, and it's it's bound to happen.
• 46:33
  Speaker 7: Not everything's gonna go the way it's been going, but
• 46:38
  Speaker 7: I'm ready for a war. And even in the amateur career,
• 46:41
  Speaker 7: that Kenyan More fight, that one was a five round war,
• 46:43
  Speaker 7: and like that one, was pretty grueling and tiring. So
• 46:46
  Speaker 7: I showed that I can pull it out when I'm
• 46:50
  Speaker 7: as tired as possible. And yeah, and I've been in
• 46:54
  Speaker 7: the deep waters before.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: And so yeah, is Cardio really king?
• 47:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's honestly, like, if I had to have one
• 47:04
  Speaker 7: fear in there, it would be getting tired during a fight.
• 47:07
  Speaker 7: It's not about getting knocked out, like honestly, that stuff
• 47:10
  Speaker 7: doesn't hurt with adrenaline, But the worst thing is getting tired.
• 47:15
  Speaker 7: And like, because I've been tired in the past, like
• 47:17
  Speaker 7: with wrestling and stuff like that, and it's just it's
• 47:21
  Speaker 7: embarrassing if you can't finish a fight or if you
• 47:23
  Speaker 7: lose a fight because of Cardio. That's it's embarrassing. It
• 47:27
  Speaker 7: sucks everyone what watches you. But yeah, Cardio is king.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: Where'd you go to high school?
• 47:34
  Speaker 7: I went to Saint John's very Academy, okay, And yeah,
• 47:39
  Speaker 7: graduated there twenty twelve.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: Okay, and you were a pretty accomplished wrestler.
• 47:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I started wasn't my first my freshman sophomore year,
• 47:53
  Speaker 7: I didn't place at States. I wasn't like I was okay,
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: but I wasn't that good. And then I was poortuate
• 48:00
  Speaker 7: 'ough to have like an amazing wrestling coach, Mike Verge,
• 48:03
  Speaker 7: and he pushed us and pushed us and got me
• 48:06
  Speaker 7: to do it like year round. And once I started
• 48:08
  Speaker 7: doing it year round, I went from not placing the
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: first two years to becoming a two time state champ.
• 48:16
  Speaker 7: So it went from not placing to winning states just
• 48:18
  Speaker 7: with hard work and dedication.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: Any siblings, Yeah, I have.
• 48:24
  Speaker 7: Three brothers and one sister. The sisters the oldest. I
• 48:28
  Speaker 7: have an older brother that I work with right now.
• 48:31
  Speaker 7: Then I have two younger brothers. One of them lives
• 48:34
  Speaker 7: in Barry moved out here and he trains he fought
• 48:37
  Speaker 7: before does Brazilians who trains a lot with me. And
• 48:41
  Speaker 7: then another younger brother also that I work with.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right around the same age though.
• 48:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we're all within a couple of years of each other.
• 48:50
  Speaker 7: Like it's like two years, two years, two years pretty much.
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: Sure.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: So mom has four boys. Yeah, tell me about some
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: of the fights he got into as as kids.
• 49:01
  Speaker 7: I mean it was, uh when we were younger, we
• 49:03
  Speaker 7: definitely fought a lot. We weren't much of like fist
• 49:06
  Speaker 7: fighters like we do in naming stuff, but we we
• 49:09
  Speaker 7: probably we used to hate each other obviously that that's
• 49:12
  Speaker 7: like how most kids are when they're younger. But we
• 49:14
  Speaker 7: all get along great now. But yeah, we've we fought
• 49:18
  Speaker 7: all the time and probably drove our parents crazy. But
• 49:24
  Speaker 7: and then, yeah, it was quite hectic. The the ear
• 49:28
  Speaker 7: knew us pretty well.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: Really. Yeah so, so obviously fists have flown, well, some.
• 49:34
  Speaker 7: Fists have flown, but sometimes the ear things were just
• 49:37
  Speaker 7: from doing stupid kids. So we we grew up on
• 49:39
  Speaker 7: a horse farm with a bunch of horses and just
• 49:43
  Speaker 7: had a lot of stuff we could do with uh
• 49:46
  Speaker 7: running around on the big property.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: Trying desperately to get hurt. Yeah, yeah understand.
• 49:52
  Speaker 7: Riding the bowl?
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely did you did you?
• 49:55
  Speaker 7: We had we had a little bowl and uh we
• 49:58
  Speaker 7: had a we would hop on it sometimes.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah so, but but fists have flown with the with
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: at least one of the brothers, Yeah.
• 50:10
  Speaker 7: I mean a few times. And then uh we actually
• 50:13
  Speaker 7: used to Me and my older brother used to Actually
• 50:15
  Speaker 7: Johnny had told this story before, but uh, I would
• 50:18
  Speaker 7: take one of the younger brothers, my older brother would
• 50:20
  Speaker 7: take the other one. We would train that person and
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: then we would put our dad's old hockey equipment on
• 50:26
  Speaker 7: them and then make them fight each other with all
• 50:27
  Speaker 7: the hockey gear on. And then it was me and
• 50:30
  Speaker 7: my older brother wanted to see, like who the better
• 50:32
  Speaker 7: coach was?
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: In a way, wow, where was this done?
• 50:35
  Speaker 6: Was?
• 50:36
  Speaker 7: Was it in the yard, in the garage, in the yard,
• 50:38
  Speaker 7: sometimes in the house.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: But yeah, your poor mom, Yeah damn having to deal
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: with that ship.
• 50:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah no, Uh, we definitely probably drove them a little crazy,
• 50:49
  Speaker 7: but they've they've been there through it all and supported
• 50:51
  Speaker 7: us all the way through it.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: So wow, Now did you did you ever get into
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: no fight in school?
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: No?
• 51:03
  Speaker 7: I never was, Like, uh, there had been times me
• 51:06
  Speaker 7: and my friends would get together and we would like
• 51:07
  Speaker 7: box each other with boxing gloves, and none of us
• 51:10
  Speaker 7: knew what we were doing. We all like, we all
• 51:12
  Speaker 7: thought we knew how to fight, but in reality, if
• 51:14
  Speaker 7: you don't train you how to fight. But this is true,
• 51:17
  Speaker 7: I wasn't much of a fight. I was honestly the
• 51:19
  Speaker 7: quiet kid in school. Uh, and didn't really talk too much.
• 51:24
  Speaker 7: I kind of hung out with my friends and stuff
• 51:26
  Speaker 7: like that. But I was never starting stuff or trying.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: To fight people or running your gums.
• 51:31
  Speaker 7: No, yeah, never running my gums.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: You never got no fight in the hallway out out
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: in the out in the yard.
• 51:36
  Speaker 7: No, no, I've like yeah no, yeah, unlike recks, yeah,
• 51:45
  Speaker 7: unlike recks.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: Unlike what about a what about a bar fight?
• 51:50
  Speaker 7: Uh not really no, there's been always been like like
• 51:54
  Speaker 7: I don't know, the drunk stupid arguments and stuff like that.
• 51:57
  Speaker 7: But uh no, not not much of a fighter, just
• 52:00
  Speaker 7: a it was just a wrestler.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: Wow. What do you what do you like to do
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: in your life? I know you work hard. I know
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: you're you're being You're pulling yourself away from your job
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: to be here this morning. What do you like to do?
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: You're you're engaged, Yeah.
• 52:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah, recently engaged. Gratulations man, Yeah, thank you. But we
• 52:23
  Speaker 7: we like to do a lot of outdoor stuff, me
• 52:25
  Speaker 7: and my fiance. We go on a lot of hikes.
• 52:27
  Speaker 7: We bring our dogs for walks, all right at the quarries.
• 52:30
  Speaker 7: The corries are an awesome place to go take your
• 52:31
  Speaker 7: dog for a walk. Uh yeah, we're the Frisbee golf
• 52:36
  Speaker 7: h yeah yeah.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah yeah.
• 52:37
  Speaker 7: We go to those trails like almost every day but
• 52:41
  Speaker 7: except for a few here. But just like enjoying the
• 52:44
  Speaker 7: outdoor weather and now that it's getting nicer out definitely
• 52:47
  Speaker 7: gonna do some more.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: Things, camel some maybe at some point.
• 52:51
  Speaker 7: This that's on the list, that's what we want to do.
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: We did, uh, we actually did.
• 52:55
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 52:55
  Speaker 7: It was Mount Mansfield last year, and yes, I ended
• 52:58
  Speaker 7: up going to practice. My fiance wanted to leave earlier
• 53:02
  Speaker 7: so that we could kind of get it done, and
• 53:04
  Speaker 7: I was like, oh, we'll go after practice, and we
• 53:06
  Speaker 7: ended up hiking it and then we got stuck up.
• 53:08
  Speaker 7: We were at the top when sunset started and we
• 53:10
  Speaker 7: ended up walking down the entire mountain Mansfield and the
• 53:14
  Speaker 7: pitch black.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, so I've done that on on Campbell's but but
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: not on Mansfield.
• 53:19
  Speaker 7: So no headlamp or anything, just our phones, just our
• 53:22
  Speaker 7: phone lights.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah that works.
• 53:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: What else do you like to do?
• 53:28
  Speaker 7: Uh? I don't know, honestly, just hang out with like
• 53:32
  Speaker 7: a big family person. If I have a chance to
• 53:35
  Speaker 7: go see my family, I'll go hang out with them.
• 53:38
  Speaker 7: But mostly just outdoorsy stuff and practice and work.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: And you worked very hard, very very hard. You have
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: worked for Barcelow Construction for a long time. You and
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Ed and everybody. You guys are all tougher than nails. Man.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: I can't believe you're out there framing shut up in
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: the in a snowstorm and stuff. I mean, it's it's
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: impressive what you do. Yeah, but but you know, one
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: of the last times I step foot on one of
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: your job sites, you you and Edward there and both
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: of you mainly at Buffoon, you know, saying yeah, you know,
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: we're we're we're out We're out here working really hard,
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: really hard, and when the day is over, we're gonna
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: meet back up at Granite City MMA and beat the
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: shit out of each other.
• 54:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, it's a it's a never ending cycle of
• 54:38
  Speaker 7: work practice and then not much free time. But when
• 54:41
  Speaker 7: I get free time, I try to take advantage of it.
• 54:44
  Speaker 7: But especially during fight camp, there's the always the onseeing
• 54:48
  Speaker 7: things that people don't know that we're doing. Like I'm
• 54:51
  Speaker 7: always trying to do extra workouts, running on the treadmill,
• 54:54
  Speaker 7: doing privates with our coach, just NonStop work to all
• 54:59
  Speaker 7: for one moment.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't that something you? You and Lucas and Rex
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: and Kendra and Sophia and everybody else. You guys are
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: so good with welcoming kids into that gym and just
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: mentoring them and showing them what they can do with
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: their bodies and that they don't have to aspire to
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: be a champion in the ring. Yeah, but to learn
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: the skills on how to go through life, knowing how
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: to protect yourself and get away from a bad situation.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: You work with these little kids just like everyone else does.
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 55:56
  Speaker 7: I've been doing some starting to do wrestling practices from
• 55:59
  Speaker 7: ten to eleven Saturday. So if people want to do
• 56:01
  Speaker 7: some MMA wrestling, I'll be there and me and my
• 56:04
  Speaker 7: brother teach everything we got. But yeah, no, it's quite
• 56:09
  Speaker 7: the community. We were all trying to welcome new people
• 56:12
  Speaker 7: like anyone's always welcome, and no matter if you're just
• 56:15
  Speaker 7: a hobbyist you want to get a workout, or if
• 56:18
  Speaker 7: you want to be a champion, you're everyone's welcome, and
• 56:21
  Speaker 7: we we welcome everyone with open arms and trying to
• 56:26
  Speaker 7: get as many people in there as we can.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: Now let's talk about First of all, Rex was not
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: able to be here today. He's up at the hospital
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: getting a prostate exam. So Rex, did you do like Rex,
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: like within the hour after the battle and Berry eat
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: six pizzas and then get in the in the sauna
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: and sweat it all out.
• 56:55
  Speaker 7: No, but this whole week I kind of been pigging
• 56:57
  Speaker 7: out because I was on a strict diet for for
• 57:00
  Speaker 7: a while, so I've been taking advantage that this is
• 57:03
  Speaker 7: my cheat week, So taking advantage of my cheat week,
• 57:06
  Speaker 7: and then it's back to back to the grind of
• 57:09
  Speaker 7: trying to eat healthy again.
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: Right. Rex's phone was exploding on Sunday morning day after
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: this fight, this battle in Bury sixteen, people wanting you
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: and Rex and Donnybrook Fight Promotions has learned an awful
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: lot the hard way about loyalty and protecting what they've
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: got in that Granite City Mma. Gym and Rex is
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: a great memory. And man, it's like, if if you
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: want Chris Perrault, you you have to have proven yourself
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: as another promotions event and fight fight event fight company,
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: as someone who has above all things integrity and to
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: stand behind your word. And if you earn that respect
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: with Donnybrook Fight Promotions, he'll consider having further discussions with
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: you about any matchups with any of their fighters, especially you.
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: And I think that's really notable about Rex. He's got
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: your freaking back, dude.
• 58:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah, No, he wants the best for us and he
• 58:43
  Speaker 7: wants to make sure we're like he wants to try
• 58:45
  Speaker 7: and make the right decision for us and like do
• 58:50
  Speaker 7: what he can do to help better our careers and
• 58:52
  Speaker 7: stuff like that. Not saying we're trying to take easy
• 58:55
  Speaker 7: fights or anything. We obviously take the hard fights. But
• 58:59
  Speaker 7: he's not horring you out though, do Yeah, no, no,
• 59:01
  Speaker 7: he treats us well. And if you didn't treat me well,
• 59:05
  Speaker 7: then I wouldn't be fighting for him.
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: So you had a fight. I can't remember which battle
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: and Barry it was had to be right around maybe
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: twelve or thirteen. I can't believe there's been that many,
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: by the way, four per year up at the Barry Auditorium.
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: Donningbrook Fight Promotions keep watch of not only their social
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: but also their their web to get your tickets. But
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: there was a couple of couple of fights ago where
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: and I remember it, Lily was there. He had blue
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: shorts on you. You kicked a guy. You won the fight.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: You kicked him and it looked like your your bottom
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: part of your leg had folded in half like a
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: like a freaking pretzel. What happened?
• 59:47
  Speaker 7: So, yeah, that was my actual first fight since I
• 59:51
  Speaker 7: started training with Granite cu M and A. And yeah,
• 59:55
  Speaker 7: my striking quite wasn't like we were definitely working on it,
• 59:58
  Speaker 7: but at that point it wasn't that great and it's
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 7: improven every day. But I threw a kick and hit
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 7: him right. It was the one kick I threw and
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 7: it hit him right in the shin bone, and uh,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 7: it just my foot balluant like. I felt it start
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 7: to swell instantly, and then that happened. I think it
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 7: was like the near the end of the second round.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 7: So I had to fight the rest of the fight
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 7: with a messed up foot, and good thing I was
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 7: good at wrestling, so I just took him down and
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 7: kind of hung out there until the fight was over.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 7: And then I thought I was pretty sure I broke
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 7: it because it it swelled like a balloon. Yeah, and
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 7: was convinced it was broken, but went and got next
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 7: ray and they're like, it's it's not broken. I was like,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 7: all right, I guess.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable to it. Yeah, it was, so it looked
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: so bad.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, No, it was the worst thing I've ever done
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  Speaker 7: on my foot. And it don't get me wrong, it
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  Speaker 7: wasn't broken, but that thing hurt and I could barely
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  Speaker 7: walk and it was all black and blue the next day,
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  Speaker 7: and yeah, looked like Elephant Titus or something.
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  Speaker 2: But it did. It looked horrible. And you know, here's me, dumbass.
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  Speaker 2: And I was standing next to Rex when that happened.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, he's compound fracture. This
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: guy's career is over. Chris Perrault's done forever. And Rex
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: looks at me, He's like, well, you just shut the
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: fuck up. You don't know what you're talking about. He's
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  Speaker 2: absolutely fine. He'll be back in the ring in no time.
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  Speaker 2: There you have it.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously we don't want to we don't want to necessarily
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: imply that you're going to be back in the cage
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: for the battle in Barry seventeen. Yeah, but there's a possibility,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: and we're gonna patiently take a step back and wait
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: to hear from Rex. Will that also be a one
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: seventy MMA title?
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it'll probably be one seventy. I mean I am
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 7: open to one eighty five. Also, we tried to get
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 7: a hold of someone at one eighty five. That's seven
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 7: to zero, and uh wow. They wanted to wait for
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 7: bigger and better things, so they weren't interested. But no,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 7: I'm open it'll probably be one seventy, but I'm at
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 7: a weight where I can go seventy or eighty five
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 7: and okay, go at it.
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  Speaker 2: So you're right back. You got right back in the
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: in the chim on Monday, and your your mindset is
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: to keep working hard, keep training hard, and be ready
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: for that next event, whatever it may be.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah, just be ready for any phone call, like because
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 7: when you take out the number one person, then that's
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 7: when everyone starts calling. And if the right person calls,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 7: the right promotion and it's something I can't pass up,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 7: I want to be ready to go that next week.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: If I have to. Or And what was Ryan Sanders'
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: record at that at that point before he fought you,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: he was.
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  Speaker 7: Twenty three and eleven and there was only one other
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 7: person to ever knock him out, and it was someone
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 7: that's currently in the UFC, So he's definitely not known
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 7: for getting knocked out.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: Who is that in the UFC?
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 7: Michael Venom page MVP?
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: Wow?
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  Speaker 7: But he did it in ten seconds. I did it,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 7: So he's a little better than the US.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: Please give me a break, dude, Jesus, You're you're just
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: what was what was another fight that you really enjoyed
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: watching rewatching last Saturday night. Uh, in addition to Quinn.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 7: Well, when I was getting ready for my fight, obviously
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 7: the Quinn one, but the one right before me, the Comaine,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 7: I was on stage kind of watching and then I
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 7: was like, I was like, I'm not sure how long
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 7: it was gonna take. And I was like, oh, I
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 7: guess I'm up pretty quick because there's a nasty head
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 7: kick knockout in the first round. And yeah, that one
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 7: was probably the I didn't watched all of them, but
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 7: that from what I hear, that was probably one of
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 7: the better moments of the night.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: Also, jeesuz, dude, listen, we had jose Or Tease, the
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: first chosen basketball player for the VT Coyotes leadoff aired
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: out this morning with the big announcement that he was
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: chosen yesterday as man number one on the roster. Great
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: to have him by phone this morning. But the Coyotes,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: hopefully you're going to be there for the fight on
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: June seventh, Battle and Barry seventeenth will get them introduced
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: because the auditorium is going to be their new home,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: which is exciting, really exciting for this coming fall. Hopefully
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: you get a chance to meet some of the team players.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: But man, it's yeah. Ramont is so impressed with you
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: on so many different levels, not just your your skill
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: in the in the cage, but also just who you
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: are as a guy. You're You're humble, you're respectful, you're polite.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: I never hear you talking smack other than two Rex
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: but and Ed, But man, you you're just a top
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: notch dude. And ramont is so proud to have you
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: represent not only our city, but our our surrounding communities.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: You are really an outstanding individual, Chris, and I am
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: honored to to know you and proud to call you
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  Speaker 2: a friend.
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  Speaker 7: I appreciate it.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: Thanks for coming in here today a lot. We uh,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: we appreciate it. Dude. You're you're just uh, you know,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: I just can't wait to see it next. That's that's
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: all I'm saying. And Lily looks up to you. Uh,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: you know, so many people do.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah, anyone's welcome to come train with me.
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  Speaker 2: So please come and do that. Don't pass it up.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're curious, come to Granite City m m
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  Speaker 2: A any night at what five ish.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, if there's the beginning. If you're younger, come check
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 7: out the beginning of classes. If you're older, you can
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 7: come check out whatever class you want, but you can
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 7: try out any class for free, so you don't. You
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 7: just come in, sign a waiver and you're you're good
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 7: to go for the first class.
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  Speaker 2: And bring your kids and and let them let them
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: you stay there and watch and and just bring them
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: and just let them observe what's what's going on and
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: let them be introduced to this world that you guys
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: are in. It's awesome, dude, Thank you again so much
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: for coming in, bro, thanks for having me all right.
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