433. New England OCR Expo 2025! (Part 2: Athletes, Speeches, and Awards)

The New England OCR Expo (  / newenglandocrexpo  ) returned for its 4th year and it was the second time being at the venue of Ultimate Obstacles (https://ultimateobstacles.com) !


Katelyn spent the whole time at our table trying to get some more people to follow our social media and subscribe to the show. Mike spent the entire event interviewing all the vendors, some athletes, and plugged into the speakers for the speeches, and awards.  The day went by way too fast and there were easily 20+ people who we wish we interviewed to have on the show as well!


This episode is part 2 of 2 and has the Teddy Bear Crawl (  / teddy-bear-crawl-foundation-61569316110933  ) announcement, speeches, awards, and about 9 more interviews!


Go back to check out part 1 of our coverage of this event! (https://theocrreport.com/432-new-engl...)


Start – 3:45 – Intro


3:45 – 8:07 – Quick News


8:07 – 9:10 – Content Preface


9:10 – 11:15 - Teddy Bear Crawl (  / teddy-bear-crawl-foundation-61569316110933  ) Announcement


11:15 – 37:21 - Athlete Interviews (Brian Kellogg (  / tekkikarate  ) , Mario Valentin (  / supersmashbrosocr  ) , Emma from Tough Mudder (https://toughmudder.com) and Spartan Race (https://www.spartan.com) , Lucas Borgatti and Roman Golisano, Taylor Feebas (  / trendsbytaylorae  ) )


37:21 – 1:31:00 - Speeches (Steve "Bacon" Martin, Dan McDonald, Eric Matta, Billy Richards, Josh Fiore, Alex Catz, Kelly Sullivan, and Evan Perperis)


1:31:00 – 1:42:17 - Awards


1:42:17 – 1:52:40 - More Interviews (Luccketta (  / ocr_luccketta  ) , Nathan Lambert (  / n8l88  ) , James Golisano (  / goli.ninja  ) from Naticook Challenge (https://merrimackparksandrec.org/nati...) , and Just Right Entertainment (  / justrightri  ) )


1:52:40 – End – Outro


Next weekend we will be up to Katelyn since Mike is taking on his first Spartan Ultra in New Jersey! 


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Related Episodes:


164. 1st Annual New England OCR Expo Preview with Steve “Bacon” Martin! (https://theocrreport.com/164-1st-annu...)


165. New England OCR Expo and Party! (https://theocrreport.com/165-new-engl...)


320. The Return of the New England OCR Expo with Steve “Bacon” Martin! (https://theocrreport.com/320-the-retu...)


323. The Second New England OCR Expo with Vendors! (https://theocrreport.com/323-the-seco...)


381. New England OCR Expo! (Part 1: Vendors) (https://theocrreport.com/381-new-engl...)


382. New England OCR Expo! (Part 2: Athletes, Speeches, and Staff) (https://theocrreport.com/episode-382-...)


431. The Return of FIT Challenge with Athletes and Robb McCoy! (https://theocrreport.com/431-the-retu...)


432. New England OCR Expo 2025! (Part 1: Vendors) (https://theocrreport.com/432-new-engl...)


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