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Jason Benetti

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  1. “I've always liked educational pursuits, but I felt like if I had taken the LSAT because I like logic games, honestly, and a friend of mine, a close friend of mine from college, was taking the LSAT at the end of college. And I decided, well, I'll take the test, see where it goes, and if I get a score that would allow me to go to law school, I think it's something that I would enjoy, just knowing the way law school progresses someone mentally. I thought it would be worth it for me.”

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  2. “I was there to call a game. It was a AAA Yankees at the time and our team. And they allowed me to do that. And there was a trust factor certainly there. But it was forever grateful to Wake and to the university I was working for at the time high point doing basketball. And my employers for just letting me do that. I mean, you know, people don't do that. Why did you come?”

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  3. “While I was in law school. So, what Wake Forest essentially would do is they would allow me to miss a couple classes at the beginning of fall semester and a couple at the end of spring semester, and I would take my finals from a proctored location at Syracuse. If need be. And then my final final of my law school career was one of those finals where you could be, it was open book, but not open computer or whatever it is. So the exam software would close down my computer, but I took the test from a hotel room in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Where were you there?”

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  4. “Wake law was as good to me as anybody could be. I was doing minor league baseball at the time. I started going to law school when I was in Able in Salem, Virginia. And then that following year I ended up taking a job with the AAA team in Syracuse. So I went back to Syracuse and was also working for this law. While you were in London?”

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  5. “Yeah I don't think I don't think it requires a psychology degree to know that but yeah I was self-conscious there was there was another student on campus that walked like I did and every once in a while he would we'd end up across the street from each other something like that and he'd try to start a conversation and I really didn't want to have the conversation I'd say hello but I didn't want to identify as somebody with a disability and is that is that really short-sighted absolutely but that's what I was at that point”

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  6. “I think the hardest thing, honestly, about having a disability is an overt one. At least for me, who doesn't have this severe medical challenges that some others might, if you just have an overturned gate that's odd or something like that, the toughest thing to know is when somebody's judging you, when they're actually using it to affect your standing or not, but I never had people other than one instance outwardly even talk about it one person I was in charge of the station my senior year and one person got really frustrated and typed something online about me at some point being a nice story for somebody's magazine but not being a good leader and You know, does that hurt yes, but were there friends of mine that I have still that rallied around me for something like that? Absolutely. But for the most part nobody really ever said anything, especially when you're doing radio. I never did TV on campus there. I never had any aspirations of being a TV person. And again.”

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  7. “Yeah, at that time the football program was doing well. They just come off Donovan McNab. And in 2003, my sophomore year, they won the national title. So I was reporting on Marshall Street, which is the campus main drag. The night that Syracuse won the national championship in basketball. I mean, there were people climbing trees. It was awesome, it was surreal.”

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  8. “It's very hard to duplicate, but you leave there saying I really number one think I can do this, and I really want to be around this at all times. I mean, they let you at the university as a student do play by play for all of the men's lacrosse, football, and men's basketball games at that one radio station. Talk about early exposure to something that's great fun and a great craft and”

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  9. “It's a little petri dish that they've got at Syracuse University. It's an interesting, very intense, in a great way place. The campus radio station WAER is if you look and you say, wow, who went through there? It's Mike Tariko, Sean McDonough, Ion Eagle, the people who have Dick Stockton, you know, generations of sports announcers that have gone through there and you go and you learn how to write a sports cast and you learn how to do play by play and you learn what to do and you learn what not to do. And it's political as all organizations are, and it's fun as most organizations are, and you're there until five in the morning putting the finishing touches on this piece because you want it to be the best that it can possibly be because you know somebody else will do it that way if you don't. And you're surrounded by all these like-minded people”

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  10. “Also, a great They've named an award after him, actually, at the university. They yearly give the Glickman Award to an outstanding sports broadcaster from the university.”

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  11. “Broadcaster, yeah. That's why I went to do it. And also I'd add some reinforcement. When I was in band, I played the tuba, but I couldn't wear the suzophone. It would have knocked me over or just not with my gait. It wouldn't have been a great idea. So the band director sent me up to do the announcements for the band. So coming up next, whatever we were playing that day, ragtime or whatever. And people said, wow, you're kind of good at that. And then I did the high school radio station, and people said, wow, you're kind of good at that. And for somebody who never really had a skill, that's not to demean myself from my youth, but you never really have had something where people said, wow, you're really good at that. That's a reason to take something up as a vocation, I think.”

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  12. “I was paying attention as much as I could from a hotel room in Oklahoma City when I was young I remember my family and I going down to Oklahoma City so he could do his training and that's that's actually oddly my first recollection of sitting home and watching game shows is in Oklahoma City is just like Sitting and watching, and that turned out to be a love for me.”

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  13. “I know he was in the hospital for a while, and then so was I so I just I can't imagine what was like for my mother dealing with both of us. In that way, and then him seeing me where he was, it's just it's almost foreign for me.”

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  14. “Yeah, my father and mother were walking past a building near the ballpark, and a giant piece of concrete fell off a building onto my father, and he dealt with neck issues and neck injury and things like that that lingered for a while. But yeah, so you guys.”

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  15. “It was, I never played. I just, you know, I play catch in the backyard or hit the wiffle ball or whatever it might be, but I never played in Little League or anything of that nature. I called games and did sports on the radio because number one we had this high school radio station and number two because I found out later that's where I felt comfortable. I mean, I don't have to walk up to my audience when I'm sitting on the radio. They just take what I'm saying. There is no picture. So for me in high school, I didn't really firmly grasp that. But at some point over the course of time it washed over me that, you know, of course you would do this. The inhibitions are gone if you sit behind a microphone.”

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  16. “Yeah, yeah, in an unsanctioned way. We didn't have any sponsors, but I was, and that's kind of where I got the draw of just talking about sports. And then you have a high school radio station, and you're fortunate for that reason, too. I mean, anybody who says that the teachers or the school that they went to didn't shape them in some way either doesn't understand how that happened or is not telling the truth.”

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  17. “Generation, the maddened people. So you could go home, watch sports, and call sporting events off your screen, which I did to the dismay of people playing against me. But”

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  18. “Yeah, my dad was a big football baseball fan. We watched basketball, baseball, football together. My mom's a huge sports fan, even more so now. There will never be a zero rating on one of my games, I can guarantee you that because she will be watching. But yeah, and part of it was I grew up in the heyday, maybe not the heyday, maybe it's the heyday now, but the start of the video game sports.”

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  19. “Made you the assistant coach? And I said, Why? And he said, because he felt sorry for you. Whether I should or not, I remember that. It's very well etched into my mind and I had said that at some point over the course of the last year, and mister Menig sent me a text and was like crestfallen. And I said, that's not you. That's him saying it, but also kids don't know. Kids see something different and it's just different. That's the way brains work.”

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  20. “Yeah, I mean when you go to school and there are people who say things to you that you don't really know how to process in middle school, I I ran into middle school a shop teacher. His name's mister Menick, and he's actually a sox fan, it turns out, I found out after I got the job. He made me the assistant coach for the basketball team. And he's a wonderful man he saw that I cared about sports and wanted to be involved in some way, so he didn't just make me a manager and go pick up the balls and the jerseys and things like that. He wanted me to be involved, call plays, sit next to him on the sideline, things like that, which is amazing to have somebody do that for you and get you involved in sports at such a young age. But I had a kid in gym class at one point say, you know why, Mr. Minnick?”

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  21. “Well, there's some level of cruelty, I think, for anybody when they're growing up. But yeah, you're kind of a novelty when you're in a wheelchair in elementary school, right? People want to push you not actually physically push you around, but actually push your wheelchair because it's a fun thing to do. They haven't seen a wheelchair before. So there was a lot of that. My parents were very involved in terms of field trips and things like that. But, you know, you get to middle school and high school, and people are going to call you names and things like that. But once I got to high school, ended up with a group of friends that I felt very comfortable around. But yeah, I mean, there were certainly moments where you say, boy, I don't know why people are being mean in some way.”

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  22. “Oh certainly, and I was a volunteer at a camp in Syracuse, which is kind of going well beyond how this started, but I got to meet some kids who have significantly greater challenges than I do speak with assistive technology, can't speak at all, whatever it might be. So what I say about my brain and not wanting to know what's going on up there is sandbagging a little bit. I mean, I know that I'm a highly functioning human being and I'm grateful for that. But I had surgeries when I was a kid, going back to your original question. I was in a wheelchair at points in elementary school.”

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  23. “But what I'm left with is that I walk rather distinctly, let's say I have a gate that looks more like a limp, and that's essentially, I've actually never in adulthood had my brain tested in some way. I think in part because you don't want to know what all is deficient up there.”

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  24. “Right, right. So what I ended up with, you know, I am not the world's foremost expert on CP in some part because I've never really wanted to identify only as that.”

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  25. “Yeah, it's such a varied disease or disorder, whatever you want to call it, but it's essentially that certain neurons in my brain don't fire the same way, don't match up, essentially with the way the neurons that you would use for walking or whatever it might be, and Fire for you”

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  26. “Yeah, my recollection of certain aspects of it is not my own, it's my parents' recollection, but I was born prematurely. And I ended up getting sick while I was very young. I have cerebral palsy, had a couple surgeries when I was young, heel cord, hamstring, a surgery on my eyes, and”

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  27. “Wallet all started in a thousand watt radio station I answer that question I sound like Ted Baxter but I grew up in Chicago for my first couple of years in the city, then my family moved to the south suburbs of Chicago. But you didn't have anything to do.”

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