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Speaker 1: You were listening to the Hammer and Nigel Show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my name is Nigel Jason Hammer right over there

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Speaker 2: with the very special in studio guests.

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Speaker 3: It is on like Donkey Kong tomorrow the Fisher's Events Center.

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Speaker 3: We call it the FECh FECh Around and find out right.

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Speaker 3: AW Star, the proto Star. Kyle Fletcher is here aw

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Speaker 3: Dynamite in town tomorrow, TBS National Broadcast. Kyle, Welcome to

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Speaker 3: Indy brother.

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Speaker 4: How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm great, Thank you very much for having me a

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Speaker 1: little bit chilly.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, we were just talking about the air about it.

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Speaker 2: I mean you're from Australia, yes, sirrect And the first

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Speaker 2: time you ever experienced these types of chili temperatures that

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Speaker 2: were experiencing now was only a couple of years ago ago.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty twenty three was when I moved here. So

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Speaker 1: that December was when it all first out of hitting me.

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Speaker 4: Where'd you move?

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Speaker 1: Chicago? So?

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Speaker 4: Oh, dear God, go big or go home?

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Speaker 1: That's it, man, dive straight in you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that lake effect, yes, those winds and that snow,

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Speaker 2: Holy good God almighty.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you haven't experienced a Chicago winter like I

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Speaker 3: had a bachelor party once and Kyle and I were

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Speaker 3: talking about this off the air, like you come around

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Speaker 3: the corner of a bar and when that lake wind

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Speaker 3: hits you in the face, it's a religious experience, right, right.

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Speaker 3: So it's been a big year for you, man. You

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Speaker 3: had a little feud going on there with with Roads

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Speaker 3: Dustin Roads, the Chicago Street Fight, had a little run

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Speaker 3: with a title, and now tomorrow night TBS National audience,

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Speaker 3: you got the Dynamite broadcast.

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Speaker 4: How's Ben? How's work been? How is business? Dude?

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Speaker 1: It's been pretty crazy. Pro wrestling is very uh IBus

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Speaker 1: like to say, it's fifty two weeks a year, no

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Speaker 1: off season, so it feels like it's very go, go

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Speaker 1: go all the time. As soon as one thing's done,

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Speaker 1: it's okay, we got two days, what's the next thing? Right,

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Speaker 1: So it feels like it's gone.

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Speaker 3: Do you have to work out every day? Because like,

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Speaker 3: look at this dude, if you're on YouTube, she works.

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Speaker 2: Out every day.

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Speaker 4: Look at him. Actually, five days a week is.

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Speaker 1: What we're down to at the moment.

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Speaker 4: Five okay days, yeah.

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Speaker 3: But it's not like you have cheat days like Nige

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Speaker 3: and I have where you're like, you know what, I

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Speaker 3: want to go to the talk about drive to and

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Speaker 3: get twenty five bucks for myself.

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Speaker 4: No no cheat days for you.

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Speaker 1: I won't say no cheat days, but I work with

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Speaker 1: a coach that is lets me be a bit flexible

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Speaker 1: and as long as long as I can fit it in,

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Speaker 1: it's all good.

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Speaker 2: Tell us a big picture here before we get down

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Speaker 2: to you again, AE w all Elite wrestling. What is

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Speaker 2: it like if people aren't familiar with it and people

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Speaker 2: going to the FEC, what can they expect?

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Speaker 1: Totally?

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: All EAT Wrestling was founded in twenty nineteen, so we're

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Speaker 1: a very fresh company, still young, but it was founded.

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Speaker 1: We wanted to break the mold of pro wrestling was

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Speaker 1: we wanted to celebrate all of pro wrestling. I think

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Speaker 1: it was very done one way for a very long time,

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Speaker 1: I'll say, and we want to break that mold. We

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Speaker 1: brought in all the best wrestlers from all over the world.

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Speaker 1: I'm from Australia. We have wrestlers from the UK, Japan, Mexico,

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Speaker 1: all the best wrestlers from around the world, and we

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Speaker 1: put them under one roof and we broadcast for the world.

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Speaker 1: It's where the best wrestled.

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Speaker 2: Truly.

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Speaker 3: How old were you when you realized you know what,

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Speaker 3: I might have a career in professional wrestling.

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Speaker 1: Was I think I was eight or nine years old

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Speaker 1: and I decided, Yep, this is absolutely what I'm going

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Speaker 1: to do. I started putting mattresses in my backyard, jumping

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Speaker 1: off ladders onto them, and then I found.

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Speaker 4: Every which dream right right, and look at you now

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Speaker 4: here I am in the eight or nine years old.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: But like like when I was eight years old, I

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Speaker 3: thought I'm going to be in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: Spoiler, I wasn't any good.

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Speaker 3: Like there has to be a point where you realize,

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Speaker 3: you know what, we got something here totally.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Ah, I don't know when it kind of clicked.

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Speaker 1: Started training professionally at fourteen, and then I think it

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Speaker 1: was it was always like, oh, you're so good for

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Speaker 1: then it wasn't until maybe a couple of years after

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Speaker 1: that where people realize like, oh man, he's pretty serious

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Speaker 1: about this. And at eighteen I picked up and I

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Speaker 1: moved to the UK by myself, and I think that

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Speaker 2: Now nineteen, you moved to the UK by yourself, Yes, sir, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and that's where and why. That's the sort of some

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Speaker 1: So at the time, the UK independent scene was really

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Speaker 1: popping off, and as an Australian citizen, it's way easier

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Speaker 1: to get a UK work visa than it is to

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Speaker 1: get an American work visa, So straight out of high

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Speaker 1: school they have like a visa waiver program, a two

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Speaker 1: and the UK indie seam was popping off. So I decided,

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Speaker 1: seems like the most logical next step. So I just

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Speaker 3: How did those conversations with your parents or guardians go?

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Speaker 1: Dude, my mom laughed and laughed at me when I

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Speaker 1: said it. She was like haha, and then I wasn't laughing,

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Speaker 1: and she went, wait, you serious, And then it was

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Speaker 1: kind of like she went Okay, I guess, probably not

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Speaker 1: couple months later I went, okay, I've applied with my visa,

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Speaker 1: now I'm gonna go. I think she was not the

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Speaker 1: happiest at first, maybe a little bit scared, but uh.

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Speaker 4: But you had to win her over at some point right.

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Speaker 1: There.

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Speaker 4: Just getting there now as a parent.

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Speaker 3: She's probably thinking, all right, I'm gonna let my knucklehead

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Speaker 3: kid go. If he fails, we're gonna welcome him back.

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Speaker 3: But here you are, like you're on national television every

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Speaker 3: week now, like you made it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, It's it's hard for me to from the outside

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Speaker 1: I'm living the dream. I literally am. This is everything

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Speaker 1: I've ever wanted in my life and here I am

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Speaker 2: Are other guys looking at you and saying you made

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Speaker 2: it right, Yeah, you know for sure, you know what

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Speaker 2: I mean. And I'm just wondering about you mentioned training

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Speaker 2: you went through. It Is there a program that you

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Speaker 2: go through. Is it just kind of doing a day

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Speaker 2: after day and getting in the ring and doing all

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's a bit of a weird thing because

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Speaker 1: it's not like it's a there's not like a governing

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Speaker 1: body that says like you have to do this training

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Speaker 1: list and if you can do that, then you were

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Speaker 4: It's not.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like the Wild West in the sense

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Speaker 1: of like anyone can start a wrestling school and have

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Speaker 1: of it's weird how it all works. So I basically

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Speaker 1: I just started with I found a school in Australia.

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Speaker 1: I just went, Yep, that works, I'll just go there.

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Speaker 1: And then it just so happened that the school I

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Speaker 1: went to, the Peter w A Academy in Sydney. They

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Speaker 1: and they were kind of teaching the students there. So

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Speaker 1: I started in. I was very lucky to find a

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Speaker 1: very good school to start at, and then from there

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Speaker 1: you just kind of yeah, every week, a couple times

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Speaker 1: a week, I would go down and they teach me

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Speaker 1: and then I think it was maybe a year and

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Speaker 1: a half later they went all right, go have a

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Speaker 1: match now, and then from there it just kind of

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Speaker 1: the snowball began.

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Speaker 3: Speaking with aew star Kyle Fletcher, the proto star, So

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Speaker 3: with your training and the shape that you're in, how

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Speaker 3: long would it take you to beat the hell out

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Speaker 3: of nigeen. If we tried to both of you at

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Speaker 3: the same time, we both tried to mug you in

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Speaker 3: the parking lot, how long would it take you to

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Speaker 3: just beat the hell out do I?

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Speaker 1: Is it like a sneak attack? Do I see it

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Speaker 1: coming or is it totally blind?

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Speaker 4: We both walk up and like, can't get it your wallet?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Literally within ten seconds on the ground.

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Speaker 4: Not a chance you can test it out if you're

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Speaker 4: let's go.

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Speaker 1: Sec.

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Speaker 3: It's too much credit to be honest with you, So

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Speaker 3: take us through what you're getting into tomorrow night up

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Speaker 3: in Fisher Sure.

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Speaker 1: So right now we have the Continental Classic going on.

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Speaker 1: It's our biggest tournament of the year. It's a round

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Speaker 1: robin tournament. First round happened last week. I picked up

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Speaker 1: the victory, so three points for me, and tomorrow I'm

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Speaker 1: facing off against the young man named Kevin Knight who

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Speaker 1: also picked up the win last week. So to top

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Speaker 1: of the Gold League fighting off against each other. So

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a fight out for the top spot.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited when you go on home man, like like

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Speaker 2: when you go when you Australia home. Everybody we can

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Speaker 2: have it.

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Speaker 1: December, we have a showdown there in February, so we

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Speaker 1: get to go back home in February.

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Speaker 4: Someone work allows you to travel home.

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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly right.

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Speaker 3: This isn't like you know, pro baseball players or football players.

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Speaker 4: We have an off seat exactly like.

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Speaker 3: It's all year round, uh ae W Star Kyle Fletcher.

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Speaker 3: Tickets are available aew tics dot com or Ticketmaster The

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Speaker 3: Big Show at the Fisher's Event Center.

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Speaker 4: Hey man, we appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: Coming in and uh fascinating, fascinating stuff.

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Speaker 4: Put on a show tomorrow, man, rock that thing out.

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Speaker 4: That's the plan. Fack it up. Here we go.

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Speaker 3: Kyle Fletcher The Protos starts The Hammer and Nigel Show