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It's the Short Time Wrestling Podcast. It's a time of
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year again. The US World Team is about to be
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set in men's and women's freestyle, and it's become old
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hat that we head out east. We head out to
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the Tri State area in New York City and New
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York City adjacent where the Prudential Center in Newark, New
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Jersey will again be the host of Final X again,
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pairing it with the annual Beat the Streets. I guess
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it's no longer a gal of Bob as Bob Sidell,
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the executive director of Beat the Streets New York, joins
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us today to talk about the event, talk about Final X,
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talk about wrestling, talk about his new role. But before
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we even get into the down and dirty about what
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we're doing with Beat the Streets and Final Lets this year,
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this is this is becoming a tradition where it's World
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Team Trials and Final X. It just and Beat the
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Streets just becomes a becomes a marriage out East.
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Yes, and we are very happy to be a part
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of the event. Obviously, it's going to feature some of
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the best wrestling in the world and we get to
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play a role in helping to set up the programming
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bring everybody together and really make it a great send
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off for Team USA before they go compete in the
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World Championships.
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And again even before we get into the beat the
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Streets New York aspect of it. You're a Jersey guy,
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You're a Jersey native Wall, New Jersey. I remember you
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coming up. You were just behind me. Matter of fact,
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I announced a couple of your matches when when that
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school in Norfolk used to wrestle you guys up at
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the University of Virginia. I remember one of them in
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the old the old Fieldhouse on that school at Hampton Boulevard,
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and you and a guy from from Delaware named Will
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Carroll would just be engaged in just this head. Basically,
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you guys were like fighting without fighting. It was like
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if this was like it was even greco. It's like dirty,
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but it's like those guys are just beating each other up.
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I mean it was a war. You won the match,
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but it was just like, man, that was I just
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remember one thing about you was your toughness on the
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mat and you would not back down from anybody. It
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was it wasn't like the Jersey slickness, but you was
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the Jersey toughness with you is what I remember about
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you on the mats, and then wrestling for Lenny Bernstein
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at the University of Virginia, and ultimately that degree sets
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you up pretty good. You're working out there in New
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York and talk a little bit about your time wrestling
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in Charlottesville and how college wrestling sets you up for
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life outside of you know, the sport is like a coach,
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but you're still involved with it.
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I mean, wrestling has been a part of my life
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since I was in third grade, but I really think
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that wrestling at the D one level at UVA with
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my teammates and my coach for five years really set
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me up to succeed for life off the map, which
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is something we try and instill in our kids. Have
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beat the streets. I think it's just the daily grind,
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the ability to manage schoolwork with athletics, which is athletics
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itself is basically a full time job when you're at
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the D one level, and really being able to kind
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of build that resilience that only wrestling and especially D
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one wrestling can teach you, which is coming back from
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major setbacks and making yourself better and setting high goals
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and working on plans to achieve them. I think all
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of that correlates the success outside of college and outside
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of wrestling, and that's a big reason why I'm here today.
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And it's also a big reason why I do what
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I do, which is to help the next generation get
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those same skills and be able to be successful when
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they leave the wrestling map.
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You know the late Al Beavloqua when we founded the
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Beat the Streets programs, he talked about how big New
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York City was and how big the boroughs were, and
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how many kids did not have access to wrestling. In
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your time with your organization, which you've held a couple
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different roles. This is your first year as the executive director.
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Where have you seen the fruits of that labor really
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kind of blossom in and around the Five Boroughs.
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I mean, yeah, we've come so far. We're coming up
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on twenty years of Beat the Streets New York, And
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of course Al was one of the founding members along
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with Bill Crum, Mike Novagratz, who's still involved heavily today,
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Kira Berry. But I think the fruits of their labor
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and we can see now in the fact that in
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the last since I've been with the organization now four years.
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We have grown in size by about three hundred percent,
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So that's in due large part to our engaged coaching staff,
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our new facility in the center of Manhattan. We now
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serve over four thousand kids per year from all five
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boroughs K to twelve, which makes us the largest nonprofit
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of our kind in the country and hopefully a roadmap
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brother not only wrestling, but in other sports to kind
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of aim.
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For when you look at the makeup of New York City,
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because you know, wrestling country, really it germinates in the Midwest,
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it germinates in the Northeast, where you look at the
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history of it, it's it's farm boys out of the
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Midwest and the plains and prep school kids in New England.
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So it's like you've got the cross sections or the
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spectrums of society that came together in this rugged, ancient sport,
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and you have that also right there just in that
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island that is Manhattan specifically where the training center is,
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where it's like it's like the most expensive piece of
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real estate in the country to try to put something
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on like this, But then you have the kids are livered.
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It's not like you're hopping on
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are using mass transit, kids are hopping on subways. A
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lot of people don't own cars that live on the island,
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for example. So how does the makeup of the average
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teenager look a lot different just from where you grew up,
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you know, hour or so away in New Jersey, and
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to other kids around the country that are that have
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access to wrestling rooms and such.
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I think the makeup is certainly different. The big difference
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for me is these kids are very independent and they
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are intrinsically motivated to want to get better at wrestling.
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The one thing we all know about wrestling is if
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you put in the time, it doesn't matter what your
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background is, doesn't matter your socioeconomic status, nothing. If you
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put in the time, you're going to get better and
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you're going to improve. So these kids are taking upon
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themselves to make it into the city by themselves. They
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don't have parents dropping them off, they don't have parents
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picking them up. When I was in school, I was
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fortunate my dad would drive all over the country with me.
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He would drive me to the Edge two or three
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nights a week, which was an hour and fifteen minutes
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away from my house to help me get better. These
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kids are doing it all on their own. They're taking
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two hour train rides from Queen's Brooklyn some Staten Island
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and coming in just to get better and be a
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part of the experience. So for me, I think the
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big thing and the impressive thing is their motivation, which
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is what we every day we start practice and we
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start our academy nights, we're giving themselves a round of
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appla us for being there and choosing to dedicate their time,
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because we harp on it, probably the most valuable thing
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any of us have is our time, and it's how
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we choose to spend that time which is going to
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define us. That's something that's kind of drilled into our
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kids' heads and they really they've kind of taken it
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in and making it their own.
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Given the again, the diverse range of I mean neighborhoods,
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I mean you've got I remember if the one we
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were wrestling and Duffy, when we were wresting at Times
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Square outside you had the youth matches on there and
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you would see the kids last name and they were
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from everywhere. You know that that crossroads of America, the
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melting pot that is the United States. You've got a
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kid out and now I remember his name, it was
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an Azerbaijan last Azerbaijani, last name of Zaliev out there
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wrestling for Beat the Streets. Because there's large pockets of
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these populations in the millions and millions of people that
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have wrestling maybe you know, in there in their lineage,
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and they sit there and they find it. You've got
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all sorts of rep they're all New Yorkers, they're all
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Beat the Streets. So what I love about it is
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you're they're all wrestling under the same uh, the same
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wrestling flag, the same like banner, and you're giving them
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those opportunities, which is one thing I love is like
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you've got, yeah, the kid from Long Island, uh is
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named Aliah, the kid from the kid from Yonkers is
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named Jones. But one guy might be from or Dania
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from you know, Long Island with his story from the Congo.
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I mean, that's another great example of just how under
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one BTS banner you've got all these kids that are
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having access to the sport, which leads into the question
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of why is Beat the Streets New York While there's
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many Beat the Streets chapters, there's national, and then there's
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chapters all around. Why is Beat the Streets New York
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such an important cog in the wrestling landscape nationally.
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Yeah, I think there's a couple of reasons. Beat the
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Streets New York was the first Beat the Streets, and
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I think early on it became a roadmap for the
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success of other Beat the streets and there are numerous
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Every Beat the Streets equided city right now is successful
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in one way or another. You can go to Chicago,
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which is immensely successful. LA is run by one of
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the best executive directors in the country and they're doing great. Philly,
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So all these places are really they've all put their
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own spin on it, but I think it all started
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with that vision that al be Blaqua, Mike Novograts, Kira Berry,
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all these people put into effect twenty years ago. So
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I think I'd like to consider New York as one
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of the leaders to Beat the Streets movement. And I'm
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hoping that what we do will be replicated and we
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can help either emerging cities or cities established in what
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they're doing, how they can grow, and we can also
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learn a lot. We have meetings regularly with through BTS
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National with the other cities to kind of share ideas
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and work with the other executive directors to see, hey,
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how can we make this better?
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When talking about your role now assuming the role of
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executive director, Brendan Buckley was in the role prior to you,
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what is the day to day life like for Beat
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the Streets New York and how it ties into as
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you kind of touched on the nation of the other chapters,
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but when it comes to getting ready for final acts,
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getting ready for the annual benefit afterwards, this is one
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you circle on the count to be like, okay, six
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months out, a year out, you're planning for the next
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one as soon as it passes. So what's this first
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year like, Ben for you being in being in the
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executive director role.
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Fortunately I with the organization for a number of years prior,
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so I have had a good idea. We've been through
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too final exus since I've gotten gone on board, and
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so i had a general idea of what to expect,
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and I've been heavily involved in the final X events
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the last
two times. I would say for me as
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an executive director, again, I was fortunate to have an
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ED who was experienced and been there for a long time,
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so I kind of watched how things went down with
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the Final CX prior, But for me, it's just the
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intensity and the focus. We've a rather small staff of
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Beat the Streets New York, so a lot of people
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are wear in a lot of different hats, and we
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wake up every day, I would say, trying to figure
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out how we can make this event the best possible,
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working with USA Wrestling, working with Flow, trying to figure
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out how we can make it better and how we
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can keep improving well. At the same time, we're focused
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on the other part of Beat the Streets, which is
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continuing to maximize our impact to those kids we serve,
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so that I think that's a juggling act, but I
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think in the end it all goes towards the mission
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of just using wrestling as a conduit por success for
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the kids in their future endeavors.
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As we set things up, we are wrestling Final X
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two men's and women's freestyle sessions Friday, June nineteenth, at
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the Prudential Center in Newark. First sessions at two pm Eastern,
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second sessions at five pm Eastern, followed by the benefit
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across at the same place I'm assuming right across the
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street at the Red's Beer Garden.
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Red's Beer Garden. It's been our spot for a few years.
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It's actually a great place to get together after an
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event and just relax with our donors, Team USA members, coaches,
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any one part of the BTS and Wrestling family. It's
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really fun, a good time and nice spread, and it's
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a it's a big tent, so we have again people
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from all over come in for it and it's great
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how their attention to detail for those of you that
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are interested. Of course we'll bring up the information on
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the screen here in a little bit. But like they
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again the order, the type of beer. They've got the
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stat it's a stout, you know. So I love their
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attention to detail there. Also, it's it's got a beer garden.
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the spread. So if you're into the German beer garden
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style thing, they do it right there. Granted the stein's
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not quite like the dragon pagoda in Munich, for example,
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but yeah, they do it right and it's right there
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across the street. They you know, it's it's just out
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the doors and boom, you're there now when we look
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at the venue. And that's one thing that Dylan wan
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in the NCAA Championships at Madison Square Garden. He's now
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over at the Prudential Center. He brings in Damian Santucci,
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working in tandem with USA Wrestling, and Dylan of course
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loves wrestling. He's been putting events there, so you know,
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working with people like that, her experience makes your job
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for the people at the Prudential Center, and they hit
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it out of the park every time we've worked with
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him so far. And Damien's just an all star. I mean,
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how he is able to put this event to together
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and just man, he's on top of it all the time.
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It's great work with them, and I learned a lot,
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so it's it's pretty awesome.
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I'll tell you what I like about this as a
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wrestling fan. Yeah, And and the the announcing team would
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be Dort May Brian Hazard on the on the main PA,
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I guess they would say.
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So I get there, I.
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Remember walking off the matt You're like, man, Jerry, really hip,
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like really So I felt pretty good about that. But
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it's it's a situation where from a fan standpoint, you've
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got large video boards, you've got sitelines, you've got the videos.
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It might be it might be the one of the best,
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if not best sound systems I've ever worked with. So
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they've got the new Jersey Devils in there, so they've
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got they've got professional hockey, so they know how to
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do a professional sport event. They've got it right. So
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from a fan standpoint, good sight lines, I know that it.
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You know you're really in it. When you're in that
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lower bowl, You're like everything is right there. And that's
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one thing I'm excited about. The venue itself is always
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really really it lays itself out there for wrestling it
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and it's really fun for it. So when we get
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to the next steps, let's talk a little bit about wrestling, Bob,
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because I mean, uh, you know, we'll get to the
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fundraiser kick because during the event, we'll have opportunities to
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text and such. Let's switch over and you know you're
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you're you're a Jersey guy, so we get to talk
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a little bit about about some Well, first of all, yeah,
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you got wrestling in your home state, big big deal
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like this. This's got to make you feel good as
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a Jersey guy, right gat.
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I mean, I like, I walk around and my friends
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are all psyches for we have a ton of teams
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coming up from different high schools and different clubs in
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Jersey as well as New York and PA. But yeah,
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it's it's actually a buzz down here. You know, it's
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wrestling country at the Jersey Shore and North Jersey. So
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people have been talking about it for a while on
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their amps to keep it in Jersey again this year.
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So good scream with.
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What you got, yeah on the screen. What we've got
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now is the benefit information Where to get it on
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this is at first of all, you can go to
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bt S n y dot and right here the logo
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the Final CTS League will take you over to the
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information about the benefit and how to donate. So the
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benefit tickets of course, that's uh, that benefit, that's that's
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a high dollar item for people that are looking for
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that's your philanthropic gift of the year. But there are
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ways for uh if you don't have a lot of
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zeros behind your annual paycheck to contribute, because every little
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bit helps. But right there at bts ny dot org.
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But Final CS let's start with just a couple of
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matchups you're looking forward to. I know a lot of
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people have the Luke Lillodol Spencer Lee match circle, but
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give me your your your your wrestling I wrestled d
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one take that's like, this is the one stylistically or
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matchup wise, and I'm gonna sit down, Hey, we get
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to beat the start. Wait until after this match. I'm
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gonna watch this one real close.
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There's I mean, there's I was thinking about the other day.
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There's about four or five that are just blockbusters that
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I want to see. I mean, I just automatically like
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to watch Bo Bassett wrest well. I think him and
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Reel Woods is going to be fantastic. Uh. I think
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that's gonna be a great match to start it off.
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And then
obviously Spencer Lee going out against Luke lowlandahls
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gonna be There's some drama behind that, so I think
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that's gonna be a battle right from round one. For
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me personally, I love watching Jax Boris wrestle as well,
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So Forrest Blaze I think will be fantastic. And then
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there's for the veterans. I mean, you can't really have
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anyone better than the heat Al Dake, So I mean,
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take your pick. I think the matches are just I
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think it's our strongest lineup all the way through that
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we've had since we've run it. Yeah, that's what you've
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got it.
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It transitions over several different eras because you know it
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was we're talking eleven years ago when Kyle Snyder won
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his World championship in Las Vegas. And then you've got,
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of course the kids from the social media era. You
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know Jacks, of course Bo putting Bishop McCourt on the map,
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and then you know Jack's doing something we'd ever done, going, Look,
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I'm gonna wrestle the Power Aid. Now I'm gonna go
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wrestling NCAA championship. Then you've got your veterans. It's not
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just not You've got James Green, who's won world medals,
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reigning world champions, You've got Olympic champions, you got i
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mean this from a star power lineup. This You've got
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your Penn State guys, You've got your your you got
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your Iowa guys. You've got your your core college teams,
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your medal winners, and you're up and comers. All this
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is just on the men's freestyle side. That's bonkers. Is
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a wrestling thing. You're like, I'm if I can't be
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there at the Britentcial Center, I'm definitely definitely watching this
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on flow.
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I mean, yeah, it's It's one of those things that
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it just worked out perfectly in terms of how the
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matchups all worked out, that we are able and fortunate
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enough to have this lineup and to be a part
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of it. Yeah, I don't think there's any any matches
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you want to miss. I think every year we've hosted
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Final X, there's been some major drama, there's been some
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of the best matches I've seen, and I think there's
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gonna be some major highlights after this one.
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And we're going with the two map format. And on
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the women's side, I mean we've got I mean the
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icon of women's wrestling. Helma Rule is the very first
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Olympic Women's champion. To this day, you know, I've announced
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wrestling for who at this point almost I think I'm
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at thirty let's see, Yeah, thirty thirty years I've been
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announcing wrestling, which makes me feel really old. It's not
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just a hairline. But people always ask me, what is
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what is your most what is your most memorable call,
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what's your most memorable moment? It was Hellan in twenty sixteen.
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There is no close experience and what she did for
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women's wrestling, and let let's table that for a second
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right there in your backyard. This week, Columbia announced it
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was the first Ivy League program to announce women's wrestling
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at the division. We're now up to ten teams. Emma
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Randall's been vital there with the Beat the Streets in
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New York City RTC. She was named the head coach,
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so from you know, kind of a you know, an
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arms reach distance to see what Emma is done and
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what the backers at Columbia have done. We have Division
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one women's wrestling in New York City coming in twenty
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twenty seven to twenty eight. That's also got to make
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those Beat the Streets girls really excited.
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Oh yeah, I mean it's amazing what Emma's been able
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to do. I mean, first, obviously I met her when
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she was coming off of working with Beat the Streets
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and I was starting. But what she's been able to
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do at Columbia has been nothing less than spec spectacular.
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The support the people they have involved in that Columbia
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program on the women's side, they're the best people around.
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I mean, you have people like Kira Berry having your
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back and trying to build a program there, you're not
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going to go wrong. And with Emma running the ship.
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On the girl's side, it's I mean, the sky's the
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limit for them, and we've worked with them. The girls
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have been in our wrestling room each year, Emma's done
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clinics for us, and we bring the kids over to
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the RTC to work out as well. So we're pretty
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close with the Columbia wrestling people and it gives it
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kind of gives our girls something to shoot for and
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people to root for, which is awesome.
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Look at this women's line up. We talked about how
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deep the men's lineup is, but you also have that
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cross section of world medalist, Olympic champions, up and comers, veterans,
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and I'm looking right off the bat fifty I mean
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fifty kills. You know, Katie Gomez and Morgan Turner, both
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two young up and comers that are going to set
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the stage pretty quickly. We mentioned Helen, you know, Kayla
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Miracle has been in a couple of big games, Kylie Welker,
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you know world medalist and Age Group world champion, Kennedy Blades,
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who is just electrifying every time she stuffs on the mat.
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We won't see I meet Illora actually compete because Alex
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Glaudia unfortunately had to pull out due to an injury.
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But she's back on the mat just months after giving birth.
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And this is something that you know, Christy Morno, now
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Christy Davis had gone through in her career. Sarah McMahon.
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Adeline of course, Adeline Gray made it to you know,
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a deal which after you know, coming back from twins
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to wrestle, so I meet in her early twenties, has
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a long stretch.
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Of her career to go.
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So this is this is again a dynamic matchup. You've
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got your star power, you got your up and comers. Ever,
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s Lydecker, she's won hole. My goodness, she is a hammer.
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So again let's circle this up around the girls. You've
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got the beat the Streets girls that now have a
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Division one team in their backyard at the IVY League,
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which it's not, you know, it's not a small school
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that you're like, where is that? This is Columbia. And
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then now you know, the week or change after the announcement,
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those girls get to go watch the elite women's wrestler
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wrestlers compete for a chance the world championship. So that's
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really kind of sell that Beat these Streets mission to
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these kids. These parents in these donors pretty easily when
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you when you frame it like that.
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Absolutely, And I think one of the big things is
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you were talking about earlier, but showing the kids what's possible,
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no matter where they come from, what their situation situation
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is at home, here's what's possible if you put in
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time in your schoolwork and in learning how to wrestle,
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on developing as a wrestler and a human. Uh. We
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surround them with those people, whether it's the Columbia girls
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coming into practice or Emma doing a clinic. Oh, look,
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this is possible. So I think that's it kind of
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gives our girls and all of our athletes just, hey,
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this is something that I don't just hear about or
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see on social media. I can attain this. I've met
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these people, they've done it, They've told me how to
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do it. So I think that's really where that Beat
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the Streets mission really comes to fruition.
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When we go back to what beat the Streets New
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York means nationally. I remember, I've been to numerous functions.
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There's whether it has the first one at the Bowery
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where I got sides whited by a taxi driving back
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to Pennsylvania, such as Life in New York City to
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Times Square to you know, the Potential Center, to wrestling
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in a bank. You know, we had Neil Degrass, Tyson
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and you know out there with Tim Ferriss and Jordan Burrows,
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like we have so many different uniques. They wrestled in
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Grand Central Wrestling, wrestled in in subway stations.
You've basically
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been putting this everywhere and giving it. Putting across the
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River New Jersey and Arena makes things a lot, I
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guess easier from a permit standpoint to get things done.
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But when when you look back at history, even before
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you were there, what Beat the Streets in New York
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and this event and now tying it into the World
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tem Trials and Final X has meant to the sport
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of wrestling as a whole. How do you look at
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that and go.
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Man, this is this is nuts. Yeah. I mean when
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I first heard of Beat the Streets it was through
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their events years and years ago, and I was like,
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that is so cool. Like I even where they were
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putting it on. They were just masters at promoting the sport,
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not only to wrestling fans, but to people who didn't
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know anything about wrestling. They're like, what's going on there?
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That's awesome, And then you learn more about Beat the
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Streets and its actual mission and what it does, and
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you're like, that's one of the best organizations around. Yeah,
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they've done everything. I mean, they were true the founders
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that Beat the Streets were true visionaries and really knew
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what they were doing in terms of impact and in
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terms of getting the word out about what a great
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organization from Again, can't say enough about Al Devil Lock
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with Bill krum Mike Novigrats who has just been a
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constant for the last twenty years and his support and
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Beat the Streets and making whatever we do possible. I
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just think that you can really see what the impact
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of what they'd done and how it's come and where
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we are now, and it's a good place and we
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hope in the future to expand on it.
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When we go over and look at the donation page again,
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give dot btsny dot org is a landing page, but
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we're gonna have QR codes, We're going to have texts
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what do you got from us? For those that maybe
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listing in their car and they're not to be able
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to like, oh, well you you're not supposed to text
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and drive. You're definitely not supposed to browse and drive.
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But you got a couple pitches here. What's the first one?
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We can give an advanced warning on the text messages
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on where they can contribute.
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Yeah, I think the easiest thing to do is go
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to that website bts NY dot org and donate. If
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you cannot make the event. If you can make the event,
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I highly recommend doing it. I mean, I don't think
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there's any better place for a wrestling fan to be.
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It's exciting throughout the whole day and night, and you
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get to meet some of the best wrestling fans in
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the country as well a see some of the best
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wrestling in the world. And it's all off of the
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website BTSNY dot org. All the money coming in from
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Final X that's fundraised will go directly to our programs
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on and off the mat. It goes to our year
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round training center. It operates four or five days a week.
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It goes to social emotional learning classes, skills workshops, and
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college and career readiness programs. So we really try and
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wrestling is great and it teaches you a lot of
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skills that will help you in life. But we're also
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working on everything else off the mat to help these
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kids be into the best position possible to succeed at
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whatever they want to do. So every dollar you help
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let's bring in, that's what it goes to.
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It also helps, you know, we've got these events that
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come around those you know, there's certain things that you know,
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we talked about those permits and things of New York
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that you know, there is the cost of doing business
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when you provide an event like this. But to to
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tangent off that a little bit with the relationship between
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USA Wrestling, of course it's their events that are really
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in their athletes. And then of course Flow
Sports and
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Flow Wrestling, which streams this thing and provides a lot
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of production value to the sport and visibility to the
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sport as a whole. So what's it like having those
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two as a partner for this type of event.
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I mean it's great. I mean great to partner with
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USA Wrestling. They obviously run events throughout the year, so
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they are very their seasoned veterans and they've been great
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to work with. Pete isaiahs, rich Bender and the whole
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staff have been really good for us. Flow wrestling. I mean,
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they are the broadcaster of wrestling events, so it's great
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to have them on board, and they've done amazing things
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to help grow the sport almost at every level. So
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it's again we're working with an all star group of
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people and organizations. So I think it's going to be
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a great show.
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Final X and the annual Beat the Streets Benefit June nineteenth, Newark,
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New Jersey, the Prudential Center rounds. We got actually we
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jumped over the start time just a little bit because
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let me go find that just to make sure if
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my mouse wants to be it really doesn't want to work.
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When the technology works and when you're a one man shop,
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let's say we can go over here, we can click it.
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I think my mouse just died there it goes. So
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we got the true third matches that are starting beforehand.
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So you show up at too, you go see the
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main event, but we've got the true third matches starting
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before then. Then we go to the two o'clock five
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o'clock if you're interested in hanging around benefit. Of course,
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the information on how to get tickets for the benefit
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is also at btsny dot org and and Bob in
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the time we got left. What are we close with? Man,
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We're excited for this. I leave in about what six days,
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I'm in, I'm out. It's it's Father's Day weekend, it's
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my daughter's birthday. But first Final X beat the Streets.
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Yeah, I mean, I think this the way we prep
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this and the way it's set up with the lineup,
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I think it's going to be one of the best
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Seat the Streets USA Wrestling Final x's that we've seen.
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If you haven't planned on going, I plan to get there.
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We're running a Father's Day special now through the end
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of the event, so please check it out for tickets.
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There are all there are every level of price point possible,
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so we have tickets for everybody. We hope to see
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you there and and I hope to see your intro
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at the beginning of the night and the CEF the
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after party.
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Yeah, the the now it's the glistening of the dome.
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We'll actually probably I used to see you'll hear me
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before you see me, but now it's just like I'm
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going to be blinding people that come. Those are great,
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great light seared Pruential Center. Bob always a pleasure. We
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can tell more more stories about your recruitment to schools
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not named UVA that are always fun. Twenty five years
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after the fact, So Bob Sidel beat the Streets, New
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York exec Director. Thanks for the information again. Those of
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you can watch on Flow Wrestling. Information on the event
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found at the Matt dot com, and of course, the
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donation is at BTSNY dot org. Click the big donation
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link you can find all that out. June nineteenth, We're
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setting a world team. Man, it's gonna be fun. Bob,
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I'll see you there.
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WUSA