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Speaker 2: The Battle Brown, Battle Round, the Battle Round, the.

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Speaker 1: Battle Crowd, Welcome to the Battleground Podcast, your place for

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Speaker 1: all things pro wrestling.

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Speaker 2: The Battle Round, the Battle Round.

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Speaker 3: Now making their way to the microphones. Give it up

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Speaker 3: for your host.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Battle ROWND.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Episode number one ninety nine. That is absolutely insane and

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Speaker 2: I just want to say thank you to you for

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Speaker 2: Hopefully we're gonna do some big things. Hopefully, hopefully maybe

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Speaker 2: I should learn how to talk. I do that for eleven.

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Speaker 2: By the way, It's Battle but Yeah, episode one nine.

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Speaker 2: And it's kind of crazy because I was looking back

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Speaker 2: when he was known as Punishment Punishment Martinez, and it

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Speaker 2: just so happens that it was two years ago this

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Speaker 2: things happen, and we're glad to see good things happening

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Speaker 2: for Damian Priese, and of course we'll talk about some

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Speaker 2: What's up you guys. Welcome back to another episode of

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Speaker 2: the Battleground Podcast. Of course it's a fun episode today

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Speaker 2: But let's kind of talk you had a hell of

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously everything worked out the way I should have.

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Speaker 1: You know, I had good experiences. I got to become

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, absolutely, And man, what he did for us,

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Speaker 2: And him hitting that Canadian Destroyer on the outside of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was Like I was texting my Bundy. I

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Speaker 1: And that's where we're at right now. So as far

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Speaker 2: And I mean, I will tell you that a lot

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Speaker 3: It seems like it's meant to be.

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Speaker 2: It's meant to be. So here's a kind of a

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Speaker 2: That that would be amazing. And by the way, you

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Speaker 2: All over the place. And we've got one more fan

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Speaker 2: Want to know. You're better known for your He'll work

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Speaker 1: So I think for me, Damian Priest, it's a case

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Speaker 3: But if you notice, I'm still the same guy. You know,

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Speaker 1: It's just a matter of who I'm being you know,

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Speaker 3: But so that's the difference, you know, as far as

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Speaker 1: There is something to being a little edgier and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, like you think you're right in your for

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Speaker 1: it's more that. And I guess if I had to

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe I'm a little nicer to people, but

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Speaker 3: But besides that, you know, I'm Damien Priests, I am

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Speaker 2: Am for sure, And you know, you talk about the

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Speaker 1: I remember it felt like an explosion inside my body

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Speaker 3: And I was like, absolutely not. How could I be okay?

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Speaker 3: And for a second, and I'm gonna be.

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Speaker 1: Completely honest, for a second, I just thought I was

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Speaker 1: I don't think I'm gonna even trying to get back

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Speaker 1: and I was like, I should have stayed outside the ring, right,

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Speaker 1: We're just fun.

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Speaker 3: Just go up the X.

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Speaker 2: We're gun, We're going home. But man, Damien, I really

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Speaker 2: And of course don't forget you can still grab tickets

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Speaker 2: to the WWE Super Show. It's in Detroit Sunday. Tickets

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Speaker 2: still available, can get up at WWE dot com. But

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Speaker 2: Damien again, thank you for being on the show. Once

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Speaker 2: I see that WWE's rolling through Nashville, once we get

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Speaker 3: Hell yeah, that'll be cool man awesome. Thanks Damian, you

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Speaker 3: got it.

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