ST. LOUIS - Victor Lappost was just doing what he thought was the right thing by helping the neighbor of his best friend.

The 25-year-old Miami native was visiting his friend Jose Leon when they noticed Jerri Palmer was having car trouble. A ball joint had broken and the front passenger side of her car was resting on the tire. Lappost offered to repair it for her.

Afterward he was talking with Palmer’s husband, who asked what he did for work.

Lappost graduated from Florida International University in 2011. He then spent a year at the University of Miami earning a paralegal certificate before working full time at a Miami law firm last fall.

However, the self-described hyperactive Lappost told Palmer he had fallen in love with communications.

Two days later, Jerri, who is an executive with Epicentre.tv, approached Lappost and asked if he spoke fluent Spanish. He did.

Lappost and Palmer then flew to Biloxi, Miss., for last year’s Built Ford Tough Series event and almost overnight Lappost found himself as the lead Spanish language broadcaster for the PBR on www.epicentre.tv.

“It was just a random series of events,” said Lappost, who had seen the PBR on television, but wasn’t intimately familiar with the sport. “I had no idea about everything that encompasses the sport.

“I just kind of dove in and tried to take the bull by the horns, as the saying goes.”

Lappost literally helped fix a broken down car at an apartment complex and wound up traveling from coast to coast each week and broadcasting every round of the BFTS live on the Internet in Spanish.

“Yeah, I would have never imagined that,” Lappost said as he laughed about the randomness of what he hopes is a life-altering opportunity.

The PBR has seen exponential growth among Spanish-speaking fans both in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Lappost is the youngest of three children.

His mother, Liliana, is Peruvian and emigrated from Peru to New York before moving to Miami as a teenager. His father, Ramon, was born in the Dominican Republic and briefly moved with his family to Texas before going to New York and then down to Miami, where he met his future wife.

They had two daughters and then Victor was born in 1988.

He participated in numerous sports and did anything “to stay outside” and out of the house—sort of a try anything once type of kid, which is the same go-getter attitude he had when Palmer asked him about working the Spanish language broadcast for the PBR.

“If you like adrenaline and raw action, this is the place to be,” Lappost said while describing professional bull riding.

He’s yet to have any formal trainer as a broadcaster.

A fan of the Miami Heat, Lappost said he watches and admires Jason Jackson’s weekly series that gives fans and viewers an inside look at the team. He also joked that if producers ever remake “Saved by the Bell,” “I’m looking to replace Mario Lopez.”

But, seriously, as for his long-term future in broadcasting, he said, “You can never really tell. The future’s always endless.”

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