Threeee Is the New Twoooo Podcast (featuring Coach Medlin & PU dual breakdown)


I could talk to Mike Poeta, Bryan Medlin, Steve Marianetti, Jesse Delgado, Zane Richards and the Brawlnagel Twins for a month straight, not just because they're great wrestlers and coaches, but mainly because they're interesting people with important stories to tell. The problem with that, though, is that after a day or so, their families would miss them and start asking questions, and then the police would get involved, and after the FBI tracked us down, well, there's not much of a future in that, is there? 

So, instead, we have podcasts. 

Today's Threeee Is the New Twoooo podcast features the brains of the ILLINOIS Regional Training Center, Coach Bryan Medlin. We have some surprises for him, and he surprised us with some things as well. His analogy involving Mathematics and equations is straight-up brilliant. The video starts off with a breakdown of the ILLINI versus Purdue dual on Friday, then we jump into the interview with Coach. 




Here is a link to the donations page for the ILLINI RTC. They've done exceptionally well. Reward them! Here's a short trailer starring Coaches Medlin and Richards and young Jedi Wyatt Medlin:




Credit to Bryan Medlin, The Stones, The ILLINOIS Regional Training Center, Zac Braunagel (from Twitter), FivePointMove.com, USA Wrestling, FloWrestling, the University of ILLINOIS Athletic Department, the Daily Herald, Joe Rau (from Facebook), Tapology, Sherdog, FloGrappling, Olympedia and Wikipedia.


Also, be sure to check out earlier episodes of the podcast featuring Zane Richards and the Brawlnagel Twins, Steve Marianetti, Jesse Delgado and Coach Mike Poeta:


EPISODE #1 (ZANE RICHARDS & THE BRAWNYS)




EPISODE #3 (STEVE MARIANETTI)

Note: There is no Episode 2 because Threeee Is the New Twoooo (blame Brian for that joke. Haha!).




EPISODE #4 (JESSE DELGADO)




EPISODE #5 (COACH MIKE POETA)




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