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Hi, welcome to the Macedonia Mayor's Report. I'm Mary Kidd and I'm here with Mayor Nick Molnar

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on what should be a warm spring day, but it's Cleveland and it's cold. Ohio strikes again.

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It's freezing today. All right, well, that kind of leads to the first question. The cold weather

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does a lot of damage to the roads and there are potholes, so how can residents make those known?

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So the simplest way is to go on our website under the service category and request it online.

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That's that's a viable good option, but you can also call the service department or email at service admin at macedonia.oh.us

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That's that's ways to get ahold of us. Okay, and we had a viewer

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Make a little send in a little question about the road by Kentucky Fried Chicken and the car wash down at Highland and Route 8

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That needs repaved or just fixed it needs some attention

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that's a privately owned road so you know when it comes to that that's really

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nothing to do with us I mean I I can't do anything when it's a privately owned

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thing going into a business like you know if there's issues there you should

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probably contact the business let them know that it's rough now I've driven

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over to and I've noticed it's it's it's kind of bad and I know that they put

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some patches in there so it improved a little bit but again there's not a

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lot I can do when it's not our responsibility part of shepherd road

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will be closing? Yes, so Highland Road will be closing at that point beginning April 8th,

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which is today, I believe, tomorrow. Oh, tomorrow? Tomorrow. And the closure expected to last 21 days,

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so it's part of the addition of the turning lanes over there, and that's all part of that project.

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Will Highland also be closed? No, Highland will be open, I apologize.

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But Shepherd Road at Highland, I should have clarified. Okay. Yes. All right.

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I watched a council meeting, I tried and watched them, and there was some hubbub about trees

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being torn down and residents not being happy.

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So first energy comes in and they slaughter trees and they cut them to whatever they

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need to do to keep the lines clear, not granted, you want your power to work and everything

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should be working at all times, we want that too.

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but the way in which they did the trees by South Farm was terrible and I was

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unfortunately out of town that day but my building commissioner caught it and

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called me and I got on the phone and I was speaking with the people doing the

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work there and obviously voiced my displeasure because some of the pictures

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I saw were terrible but what they basically do is they're gonna trim it

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down and they're gonna leave it and that's just what they do and that's

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what they're allowed to do and I don't agree with that at all so I've

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been trying everything I can do to get that rectified.

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I'm running into some brick walls, but I'm not going to quit.

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And the people that live over there should be annoyed and

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should be upset, and I'm upset with them.

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But I don't think first energy should have the right to go

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and do things like that.

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And that's the fight I'm having right now to get

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something done to say, look, if you're going to trim a

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tree, at least make it so that it could still blossom or

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stay out of the power lines or whatever it may be.

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But they'll just hack the thing down.

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And it looks terrible.

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It looks absolutely horrible.

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So I'm working on that.

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I don't know that I'm going to get any resolution,

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but I'll be darned if I don't try.

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Well, yeah, that's very frustrating

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because it takes a long time for the tree to grow back.

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OK.

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A brush drop-off is happening?

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Yeah, so we opened it up a little earlier this year.

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It's open during normal business hours.

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General rule, I would say, between 8 and 3.30.

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Give the guys some time to get in and get things moving.

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You must be a master in any residence.

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You're required to show a valid ID.

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We get this every year, so we'll have contractors coming in there.

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We don't allow for contractors.

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This is really for residents that are cleaning up their yard that want to dump their yard waste there,

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and it helps them out.

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That's what this is about.

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If you have a contractor doing work, they have to take it wherever they normally take it

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for any other job that they're on, and not every community does this.

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But again, leaves, small branches, things like that, that's all what you could put in there.

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You have to show your ID.

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You have to be a resident.

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So that's just the way it works.

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And where is this drop off so that'll be at 9150 Valley View Road where we've always had it now when the new building is complete

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That's going to change because we're going to have a drop-off location here, but

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For right now we're going to have it down where we've always had it for the past as long as I've been in Macedonia

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So yeah, tell me about spring fest. So spring fest is on April 25th

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It'll be how that Longwood Park in the Recreation Center

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It'll feature vendors activities food trucks and in the event of rain will move it inside which

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Again, we just talked about Ohio being Ohio.

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I mean, I think we had a swing from 74 degrees down to 28.

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So you never know, but we'll work with whatever we got.

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And it's going to be a fun day.

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Are the wooded trails finished at Longwood?

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Unfortunately not.

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Weather delayed a lot of the work.

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And it's very tedious back there getting material in and out

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and getting things done back there.

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But we asked people to stay off from the time being

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because it's a lot of moisture.

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Again, it's Ohio.

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It's the time of year.

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Things are wet.

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We've had a few snags with what we're doing, so we're delayed.

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So we're going to get to it, but right now we're in a little bit of a lull.

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Well, I read that part of this project is a story walk.

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What is that?

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So this is something new, and I was just talking with the park director, and he said it's

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partnering with the Nardonia branch of Summit County Library on a story walk for the

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Wooded Trail, meaning the visitors will be able to walk the trail and read pages

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of books that are posted along the trail.

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Fun, family-friendly activity, not only to encourage reading but physical activity

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and you can look for updates on that on our social media pages when that'll be

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ready to go. Having a wife as a teacher she'll tell you the most important

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thing for kids to do is read and she pushed that heavy on our children and

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I can say that I think they have success in school because reading was

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such a high emphasis. So putting this into our park and having a little

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bit of fun on a trail and if you've been on those trails are

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really cool it's kind of fun back there it's it's nice place for you can walk it's

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a little shade if it's warm in the summer it's not as hot because obviously

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the shade will help that out but yeah I think it's gonna be kind of cool and I

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don't know if you know the answer to this but will periodically the storybook

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change to a new one from what I understand yes oh good to keep them

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coming back if you build it now when do your monthly food trucks begin so food

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trucks begin Thursday, April 30th and will happen on the last Thursday of the month until

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July 27th and trucks will be parked in the wrecks in our parking lot as it has been years

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past.

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So everyone looks forward to that and those trucks usually sell out of food which was

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really neat.

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That's great.

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Good.

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This summer is the big 250th birthday for our country.

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Is Macedonia planning anything?

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We are and I cannot divulge it this time.

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We'll do something at our summer fest, so it'll be the spirit of Macedonia Festival

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and then we'll also have a tribute to the 250th anniversary.

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Big things coming.

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Oh, folded together.

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It'll be a part of that.

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We'll have some things contained therein and the one thing that I know for sure we're

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doing is going to be really cool and the cat's not out of the bag yet, so you're

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going to have to wait on that one.

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We'll have to check with you next month.

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For sure.

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Tell me about the senior day trips.

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So, we have April 8th, the Cavs game, April 16th, the Glass Asylum, April 23rd, the Sound

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of Music at Playhouse Square,

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April 24th, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, and April 30th, Spend

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a Day in Oberlin.

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Oh, that sounds nice.

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They all sound nice.

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I've not, I've yet to hear of a bus trip that was not fun and not light, so.

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Good, good.

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And we're gonna end our show like we always do now just for the past few months

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It's a new thing with our Macedonia business of the month. So the business of the month is Aries combat and

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You got to watch that one. I think it was a good one for us

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All right. Thank you for watching and we'll see you next time

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We are here with our March business of the month. This one's very exciting to me. We're at Aries combat with Dave will graph

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Thanks for having a sense today. Thank you. Tell us a bunch of business

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I've been here for 11 years, I've been doing mixed martial arts technically for 43 years.

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My mom and my dad started me lifelong combat sports.

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I started karate with my father and then I went along, I got five black belts between

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wrestling, Muay Thai, my boxing, my amateur boxing and my full contact story going across

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the board.

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I just I've got 29 amateur champions ever since I started I've worked with eight UFC fighters a few Bellator fighters

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PFL fighters

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I've had a be cat. Well, he fought in a BKFC, but he was a B by B world champ in the dime except belt

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I've worked with him. I've had LFA world champion from Bedford, Ohio drill clinic at Hodge

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He was actually one of my truly my first student would build up the human weapon if you guys ever heard of the history channel

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called the Human Weapon. He was a college roommate with paid manning. So I got to meet

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paid manning through my journey and stuff like that with Bill in the Old

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Twinsburg Powerhouse. And then when he transferred over and let that over, I

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actually, I was the old pro there and amateur, you know, experienced and all that

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stuff. So everybody was asking me, hey coach, because I was a coach and I

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didn't really even know that was truly my thing. So I took it over

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because it's been a family thing, you know. And ever since then, you know,

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You know, I've had a Ohio House Award.

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This is my second time you guys blessed me

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of being business a month.

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I'm just grateful, you know?

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It's been hard, you know what I mean?

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Believing in a dream, you know, highs and lows.

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You know, my mother and my father's been gone.

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They both passed.

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It's been hard, you know what I'm saying?

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But I'm grateful for being here.

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I'm grateful for helping people

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and doing what I love.

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I'm blessed.

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Well, we're happy to have you in Macedonia.

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Thank you.

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I'm a big fan of MMA, mixed martial arts,

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all that stuff.

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Tell us a little bit more about what you actually do here like what your training is and what you offer to people so they can

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Come here if they want to help patronize your business sure sure sure. This is a true mixed martial arts Academy

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I think I get a little bit misunderstood

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What I do I do consultations. That's why we have we win about 81% of all our competitions and I just make people better

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If I physically because I this has been my life's journey if I physically could sit down and talk to you and consult you

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and figure out what you need, I could work, anybody could be here, that's right.

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I mean, I've got little ones, I've had up to the highest, the highest, the lowest, the lowest.

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This place is for everyone truly, but if you really want to be a champion, this place is an academy.

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It's not a gym, it's an academy, because I totally focussely, I'm making you the best you physically could be in life.

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It doesn't matter, you don't have to be a champion champion, because not everybody can be a champion,

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but trying to be the best in life is, that's the key, right?

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You have to try and that's why I'm that enemy of never giving up, you know

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I failed millions of times, but I get up every day and I'm gonna give it my best

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I don't care what it takes. I'm gonna get it done and that's that but to be clear

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Someone wanted to come here for what's to say training or consultations

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You and I have talked many times you have

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You have football players you work with you have wrestlers you work with you have people that are interested in mixed martial arts

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So you're not you're not just a one-stop shop for mixed martial arts

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You're much more talk about like, you know, like the Akron football team you were talking about the Akron football team

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They're supposed to be reaching out to me because I'm technically if you go into judo, that's technically samba, right?

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I I promise you you can come in here with ten in guys

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You think X football players because I worked with Rob Sems before he couldn't take me down

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You know, I miss I miss you're gonna put that out there. That's all right, Rob

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You heard that you heard it Rob. All right, but I'm saying right

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But when he used to work down at the BP down here

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He used to go to the Twinsburg Powerhouse by Loverrod,

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but taking me down from here to here,

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if I could block you hand fighting,

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I'm a keto master in a judo.

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Judo, I mean, I've thrown 350 pound people

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from here to there.

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I mean, if I get my hands on you, no way.

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Not even happening.

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I'm just saying, I'm very confident in saying that,

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like physically, because it's been a lifelong journey.

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It's a difference to like say he drops down

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and he gets underneath me and gets my hips down,

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but good luck.

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It's not happening.

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And if I see it coming, it's not happening.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Because I could take guns and knives out of people's hands.

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I know how to break every bone in a body

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with 15 pounds of pressure.

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This has been my whole life.

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I know about human anatomy.

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I know about nutrition.

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I know about rehab.

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I've had 16 broken bones in my body.

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You see me moving around.

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I can move around.

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I can still run under a five minute mile.

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I can run around 11, 200 mile, 100 hour dash.

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I mean, it's just been my life's journey.

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So I get it.

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So let's just say you're a local kid in this area and they're looking for a

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little bit more training for like football. Does this be a place they can

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come to? A hundred percent. So you can help to get them to be a little bit more

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better with let's say tackling or blocking. Possessioning and coordination.

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What we talked about a lot in the past is that this is not just mixed

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martial arts. This is a lot you can put it you can apply this to other

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sports because we're a big athletic community so I wanted to point that

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exactly I can physically work with any any sports any team and I can I guarantee

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you if we did like a one-on-one if you civically wanted to work on something I

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guarantee you I can make you faster I can make you stronger I can educate you

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about your body I can I could help you throw pointers about physical rehab I

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can make you just straight better I and I will put I'll bet that whatever on

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the house I could I know how to make you better and that's what I am I'm

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I'm like a mindset coach, but I know how to get you,

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I could detail, I could sickly point things out

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that's going to educate you in some,

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which way or form to make you better in life, period.

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I will bet the house on that.

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That's great.

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And if somebody wanted to look you up,

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social media, where would they go for that?

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Well, yeah, I have four Facebooks,

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Dave O'Graft, Aries Combat, Aries Nation,

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David Graff, Instagram, if you wanna check that out,

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it's at the Andil, it's Andil Train,

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It's the Andal 2027, then Aries Combat.

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I have a couple Snapchats, Aries Nation.

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We also have one of our...

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Our service employees that works with you two a lot. I got a plug Joey here. He's an

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animal and we love him and he's a great employee but when he gets in this gym

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what's Joey like here? Joey's amazing. Me and Joe have been training together since

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I think 2008-2009 with Bill Duff, the human weapon. You know he started there.

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He actually trained with you know Devante Smith, Gerro Hodge. We had we

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literally in 2011 we were at the gym, the flight gym of the year in Ohio.

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And he was part of that back then, you know, I mean, and he came here and he's he follows through and you know

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Joe's an amazing guy, you know, I'm saying I'm starting to I'm trying to work with junior now

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You know, he's starting to come in and starting to get in here and you know like that

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And that's what that's really what you know, my mom and my dad wanted me to do, you know

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God bless him, you know is just keep giving back and help people

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Yeah, I think you do a lot of that here and we're proud to have you and you know

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It's something I talk about a lot as the diversity of different types of businesses

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where we're more food related.

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This is a little bit different,

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and I wanted to highlight that with you

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because what you do in here is great for the kids,

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and I know you work a lot with the kids.

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Can you focus in a little bit more on the kids

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and what you do with them here?

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Oh, sure, because I believe in the old world,

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so I work these kids so hard,

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but my big thing with the kids,

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I really want them to actually listen

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and take things seriously,

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so they learn to follow through on things,

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And just be able to be confident enough with all the stuff going on in these schools and

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just do the right thing.

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You know what I mean?

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It's more importantly, just do the right thing.

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I also want to point out too, this is not just a violent thing here.

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This is something that, it's a good workout, it's a good training for kids, for adults,

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it's good exercise, it's all the healthy things we want.

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And a lot of times if you just go to the gym and workout, this is going to take

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you to another level.

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and you know you and I have known each other for I don't know four or five years now sure we talk all

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the time and I love it I enjoy MMA it's it's kind of a thing for me but we're happy to have you

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we're happy to have you as our business of the month and we want to present you with the plaque

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we normally have another one yeah it's running a little late getting in but we'll start you

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with this one so this is your presentation of your plaque for March of 26 appreciate you so much