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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Ian Riccaboni - The Voice of Ring of Honor Wrestling

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.94.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Ian Riccaboni is an author, sportscaster, and play-by-play commentator for Ring of Honor Wrestling. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet from his home in Allentown, PA, and talks about being a batboy for the Allentown Ambassadors, acting in TV commercials as a child, his passion for broadcasting, how his mom would take him to wrestling events when he was a kid, paying his dues at The Monster Factory wrestling school, how he got his first break with Ring of Honor, what he learned from working with Kevin Kelly and much more!  Support the show by supporting our sponsors! Get your energy back, sleep better, and block out the unhealthy effects of blue light with BLUblox. Get free shipping worldwide and 15% off by going to https://blublox.com/CVV or enter code CVV15 at checkout. If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests.  For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to https://chrisvanvliet.com  Follow CVV on social media:  Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up y'all? It's Druski, and I've teamed up with Mountain Dew to produce a hilarious new basketball podcast called The Do Zone with Drewski. Learn the backstories of your favorite ballers and celebrities like Jamal Murray. Did you have like a favorite team? Was it the Raptors at the time or no? Was the Raptors even started around that time? Come on, bro. I ain't that old, fam. You're talking like I'm 50. Taylor, Rokes, A.J. Wilson, and many more. You won't want to miss this.

0:03.4

Listen to The Do Zone with Drusky on Apple Podcast. I ain't that all, Phil. You're talking like I'm 50. Taylor, Rokes, Asian Wilson, and many more.

0:21.8

You won't want to miss this.

0:23.0

Listen to The DoZone with Drewski on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:31.4

Well, let's do it.

0:37.5

Welcome to Insight.

0:38.5

If you're new here, thank you so much for joining us on this audio adventure.

0:43.0

I'm Chris Van Fleet.

0:44.1

I'm an Emmy Award-winning TV host, and I'm fascinated with finding out how people are wired to achieve greatness.

0:51.2

On each episode, we have in-depth conversations and reverse engineer the

0:55.4

habits and techniques of the world's top athletes, actors, entrepreneurs, commentators,

1:01.6

you name it. If they're the best at what they do, I want to get their insight and help you

1:07.0

apply it to your own life. Ian Rickabani is not only an incredibly talented play-by-play commentator as the voice

1:14.1

of Ring of Honor, but man, he is one of the nicest people you will ever meet anywhere

1:19.7

within wrestling or otherwise.

1:22.9

And his story is one of passion and grinding to where he is right now. It was such a pleasure

1:30.2

to show this conversation, show this time with him. If you're not a subscriber, you're

1:34.9

going to want to be after hearing this conversation. Take a screenshot, tag us on social

1:39.0

media. Ian is at Ian Rickabani. That's R-I-C-A-B-O-N-I. And I'm at Chris Van V-V-L-V-L-E-T. And can I ask for a favor?

1:52.4

If you have a minute today, could you leave a review on Apple Podcasts? It would be so helpful.

2:00.1

So, so helpful.

2:02.2

Attilia P says it's truly an insightful podcast.

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