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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the battle Ground Podcast. This

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Speaker 1: is a podcast all about professional wrestling. Joined Battle and

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Speaker 1: Eli as a breakdown what's going on in the world

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Speaker 1: of professional wrestling with special guests including some of your

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Speaker 1: favorite wrestling superstars. You never know who's gonna stop by

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Speaker 1: now making their way to the microphone. Give it up

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Speaker 1: for the greatest podcast team in the world, Battle and Eli.

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Speaker 2: What is up you guys at It's time for another

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Speaker 2: episode of the weekly professional wrestling podcast we'd like to

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Speaker 2: call the Battleground Podcast. Along with me my tag team partner,

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Speaker 2: this is Battle and I've got Eli with me.

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Speaker 3: What's up?

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Speaker 2: Eventually I will figure out how to intro this this

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Speaker 2: show the correct way like everybody else does. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I kind of.

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Speaker 3: Like going into a blind you know, like not only

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Speaker 3: do the listeners not know what it's gonna be, Like

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Speaker 3: we don't know what it's gonna be.

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Speaker 2: We just know we never know what it's gonna be,

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Speaker 2: and we just kind of go off the cuff and

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Speaker 2: just that's how we intro the show. You don't know

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Speaker 2: how we're gonna intro it. But that's the fun part

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Speaker 2: about this show is you never know what you're gonna

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Speaker 2: get on the show, especially with what's going on right

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Speaker 2: now in the world with the coronavirus kind of shutting

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Speaker 2: down a lot of things. I know, Nashville's kind of

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Speaker 2: got a shut down for the next fourteen days that

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Speaker 2: that was announced. Man, it's a crazy time, I will

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Speaker 3: M Yeah, I don't really have anything dead. It's just

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Speaker 3: a very interesting time right now.

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Speaker 2: It is a very interesting time, and let's just kind

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Speaker 2: of just jump right into just kind of talking about wrestling,

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Speaker 2: because we don't want to sit here all day long

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Speaker 2: and talk about how we're just kind of, you know,

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Speaker 2: quarantined in our house. Which, by the way, I did

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Speaker 2: start playing The Blair Witch last night on Xbox. It's

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Speaker 2: actually a pretty good game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I heard good things about it. I have a

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Speaker 3: PS four and I literally haven't turned on over a year.

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Speaker 3: So I was at the time, if you go back

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was sitting there and I was like, well,

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Speaker 2: they're self quarantined, and Xbox put out a thing where

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Speaker 2: it's like their gamer passes right now for you can

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Speaker 2: goes up to like fourteen niney nine and you can

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Speaker 2: play all these unlimited games. So blair Witch was on

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Speaker 2: one of them, and we were playing it last night,

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Speaker 2: and I had my twelve year old with me and

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Speaker 2: we were playing it upstairs and the and the man cave,

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Speaker 3: I think it was called Alien Isolation. It came out

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Speaker 2: To leave a light on. So that was one. I

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Speaker 2: So all right, but yeah, so let's let's kind of

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Speaker 2: address the elephant in the room. Everybody's talking about it.

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Speaker 2: This past Wednesday night, we got two big things from AW.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I thought it was good the way they did it.

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Speaker 3: You and I have talked about it. I thought Hardy

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Speaker 2: And the fact he can actually wrestle too, And that's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he can actually do moves and flips and stuff,

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Speaker 2: Oh it was. It was crazy numbers. I'm looking at

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's that's you. I mean I even

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Speaker 2: So there's your setting that up, which I wouldn't be

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Speaker 2: if it does happen, you heard it here first on

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Speaker 2: our show. So they stole our idea. So we're gonna

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Speaker 3: That, please and thank you.

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Speaker 2: So but uh yeah, I mean just watching them interact

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Speaker 2: Set your neighbor's car, that is my neighbors I thought

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Speaker 3: But yeah, when they had whatever the match was it was,

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Speaker 3: air and stuff like. Stuff like that is just incredible.

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Speaker 3: And then he did that hands in his pocket suicide

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Speaker 2: And then the best Friends did that. They attempted it

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they had a right their cult slapped

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Speaker 3: So I think obviously I didn't watch NXT, but I imagine

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Speaker 2: And you know, the one thing of taking the crowd

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Speaker 2: But also the thing is is you can you you

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Speaker 2: I remember there was like some rumors that potentially, you know,

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Speaker 3: And then it's like a clunker, you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean just think though, because it's because back

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Speaker 3: One, as I haven't seen anybody yelp, because it.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I mean I think if you know anything

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Speaker 3: So I think taping it makes more I guess makes

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Speaker 2: And then that can kind of determine, you know, if

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Speaker 3: Well, the problem is is, ultimately it's never going to

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Speaker 2: Like, so they don't spend enough time telling the story.

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Speaker 3: No, and so you know you have a company that's

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Speaker 2: No, not at all unless they you know, I see

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Speaker 2: when they do WrestleMania weekend, like your Saturday nights your

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Speaker 2: see that being there two night thing, but not WrestleMania

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Speaker 3: think they're gonna have to do something because because I

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Speaker 3: think it was like, well, I think they've switched this

433
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Speaker 3: around in the previous years, but it's like Friday night

434
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Speaker 3: was the Hall of Fame, Saturday night was a n

435
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Speaker 3: XT takeover, and then Sunday was the pay perview or WrestleMania.

436
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Speaker 3: So if they're doing two nights of that, then you know,

437
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Speaker 3: does that bomp the Hall of Fame to Thursday and

438
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Speaker 3: take over to Friday. Like what you know does takeover

439
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Speaker 3: just get implemented into the first night to WrestleMania, Like

440
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 3: what is how how is that schedule gonna work moving forward?

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Speaker 2: Right? It's it's, uh, you know, there's a lot of

442
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,920
Speaker 2: things you have to take into consideration. Like you said,

443
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 2: I mean, it moves a whole lot of stuff, which

444
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 2: that you know, whatever city has WrestleMania, if they go

445
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:18,760
Speaker 2: with the two nights and they move it to Thursday night,

446
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 2: that's just more money being spent in the city for them.

447
00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,160
Speaker 2: So it's a it's a win win for the city,

448
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 2: and it's more money coming into WrestleMania's pocket because that

449
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 2: city's gonna bid a lot of money for him.

450
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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 2: So another thing we could talk about is Rob Gronkowski

452
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Speaker 2: being in the WWE. A lot of people are kind

453
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Speaker 2: of upset because when they posted the WrestleMania new graphic,

454
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Speaker 2: they took off bray wide and put a photo of

455
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Speaker 2: Rob Gronkowski on there. So it's like Brock Becky, Rob Roman, Sina,

456
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Speaker 2: Drew MacIntyre.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, it's I don't know, it's just

458
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 3: another example of you know, Vincent's he's a high profile

459
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Speaker 3: star and he'll get eyes on the crowd and he'll

460
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Speaker 3: he's gonna have that crossover appeal because he played in

461
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 3: the NFL and YadA, YadA, YadA, and it's like, I

462
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 3: don't know, man, Like they're not like not every person

463
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Speaker 3: you sign is gonna be like Ronda Rousey, you know

464
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Speaker 3: what I mean. Like there's no there's gonna be duds.

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Speaker 3: And I mean, I don't know if he's gonna be

466
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Speaker 3: wrestling or he's just doing this like hosting thing because

467
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Speaker 3: he's been doing some hosting stuff with the NFL this year,

468
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Speaker 3: and so you know, we're not really sure what he's

469
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Speaker 3: gonna do yet. But I just can't imagine he's gonna,

470
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Speaker 3: you know, ascend to like a brock Lesner type of

471
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Speaker 3: level or anything. You know.

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Speaker 2: So no, but at least Mojo Riley's gonna get more

473
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Speaker 2: TV time.

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Speaker 3: And thank God for that, you know.

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Speaker 2: You know, we put this up about a week ago

476
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Speaker 2: about you know, talking about Rob Gronkowski going to WWE,

477
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,879
Speaker 2: and like people, you know, people were not too thrilled

478
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Speaker 2: about it, Like, you know, you've got Brad sm MP says,

479
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 2: I hate it. Get ready for another athletic person who

480
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,160
Speaker 2: can talk but can't actually wrestle or tell a story.

481
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 2: Let's see, one person was like smart signing by WWE

482
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 2: as long as he can stay healthy. They need viewers

483
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 2: now more than ever, and there's not a much better

484
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Speaker 2: move than to bring in a genuine star from a

485
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Speaker 2: sports people actually watch. And then Tom underscore Cat ones

486
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Speaker 2: that he's a star and Gronk is already a character

487
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Speaker 2: in his own right, so signing him as a smart

488
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Speaker 2: because it's going to be eyes onto the product. I'll

489
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Speaker 2: have a run like Rohnda and it'll go away for

490
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Speaker 2: a while and come back when needed. And I think

491
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Speaker 2: that you commented you responded back to that person as well,

492
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Speaker 2: but it's you know, the thing is is Rob's got

493
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Speaker 2: a thing with I want to say it's CBD or

494
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Speaker 2: maybe weed, I think. So, I don't know how much

495
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 2: that's going to come into play when it comes to

496
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Speaker 2: WWE because they have that strict substance of use policy. Yeah.

497
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Speaker 3: So my only thing is that one comment that you

498
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Speaker 3: read off about, you know, bring in a real star

499
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Speaker 3: from a sport that people watch, Like that's kind of

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Speaker 3: asinine because right now wrestling is bigger than it's ever been,

501
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Speaker 3: you know, Yeah, I mean I know, Raw may not

502
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Speaker 3: be getting the same numbers that it was getting in

503
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Speaker 3: the attitude there, but I mean you look at it.

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Speaker 3: There's you know, Raw is getting around two million viewers

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Speaker 3: a week. SmackDown's doing about two million a week on

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Speaker 3: a Friday night, which is insane. NXT, you know, floating

507
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Speaker 3: between half a million two million, aw right around a million.

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00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 3: You know, you still have Ring of Honor stuff popping

509
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 3: up on TV stations, Impact NWA, all the indies that

510
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 3: you un access on fight TV or Indie Wrestling TV

511
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Speaker 3: dot com, you know, all the stuff in Japan. I

512
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 3: mean like there's this is the biggest audience wrestling has

513
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 3: ever had, and so I kind of don't like to me,

514
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 3: it seems like Gronk would want to be involved with

515
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 3: him just as much as he they wouldn't want him

516
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 3: to be involved with them, you know what I mean,

517
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 3: Like it's a two way thing. It's not like, you know,

518
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 3: they're just randomly picking this guy. Like Gronkowski's a fan,

519
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 3: he's always loved the product, so I mean, he wants

520
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,880
Speaker 3: to be involved with that as much as anybody else.

521
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 3: And then you also look at like, you know, Hollywood

522
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 3: comes calling for the WWE two, you know what I mean,

523
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 3: Like they're always on Jimmy Fallon. You know you've had

524
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 3: you know, Jericho used to host a game show on ABC.

525
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 3: He was the host of something. He was also on

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Speaker 3: Dance with the Stars. You know, the Rock's the biggest

527
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 3: actor in Hollywood. Batista's making a name for it. John

528
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 3: Cena is gonna be huge the next couple of years.

529
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Speaker 3: Like you know, like you, I don't know, you just

530
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 3: don't have a ton of football players kind of doing

531
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 3: what a lot of these ww guys do. You know,

532
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 3: some of them will just retire and become football announcers

533
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 3: and I guess, I mean that's fine, I guess, but uh,

534
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 3: you know, you don't have a lot of them graduating

535
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 3: to Hollywood stardom and you know all this other stuff.

536
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 3: So anyways, that kind of nough.

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00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 2: So we we do have a thing over on our

538
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 2: Instagram that we'd love for you guys to chime in on.

539
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 2: And I posted this up over the weekend, and it's

540
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 2: name a wrestler that finally made it to a big

541
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 2: company but was wrongfully booked with a horrible gimmick and

542
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 2: was underutilized on our Instagram is Battleground podcast, so you

543
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 2: can chime in on that. So a lot of people

544
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 2: kind of chime in and think that Sammy Callahan is

545
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 2: in that category.

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00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they've got to. He's got to be

547
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 3: in the top five obviously because of what he's done

548
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 3: an impact since he left. You know.

549
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 2: Now he's got a feud with Ken Shamrock m.

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00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 3: Hm, which that can be good, I think, Oh yeah.

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00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 2: Most definitely. The fact that Shamrock is at his age

552
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 2: it can still go is phenomenal.

553
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 3: I'm gonna answer that question in just a second. You know,

554
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 3: let's see. Nope, nope, nope, I'm on Google right now.

555
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 2: If you cause you can't tell three there's one.

556
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 3: Three is really bad. You know. The big thing with

557
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 3: that is is that it's not really the it's not

558
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 3: really the it's not as gimmick, you know. I mean,

559
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 3: he he, you know, he he, he came over and

560
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 3: it's basically the same guy. It's just that Vince, you know,

561
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 3: turned his nose up and that's it. I think Dustin

562
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 3: Rhodes when he went back to w c W and

563
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 3: he was seven, that was a awful. That was real.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. A couple other people jumped in on this. Uh

565
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 2: Brad s s MP said Juice Robinson. Our friend Steven

566
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 2: said Terry Taylor. He hated the red rooster.

567
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think everybody did.

568
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 2: Let's see PJ said d DP when he made it

569
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Speaker 2: to w W after in the Alliance.

570
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Speaker 3: Undertaker Stalker or something.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was that was a weird one. Let's

572
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 2: see Lance Archer in TNA and w w E, Chris

573
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 2: Hero in n x T the first time, and now

574
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 2: Cody and w w E. Vader in w w E.

575
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 2: I'm just just a day piece of ship promo terrible,

576
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 2: Uh Sabu and WWE should never signed him, it was

577
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 2: never going to work. And the revival to the main

578
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 2: roster and then e C three back to WWE with

579
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 2: what hot Pants Midnight said. Oh and uh one for

580
00:30:58,400 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 2: for you is Okata and t.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think impact that's gonna be one of their

582
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 3: biggest I don't know what you call it, regrets or whatever,

583
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 3: but I mean they they brought him over and didn't

584
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 3: know what to do with him, and you know, finally

585
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 3: after about a year or so, they they let him

586
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 3: go back and then he just you know, turns into

587
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 3: the one of the top five wrestlers on the planet,

588
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 3: you know.

589
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 2: Most definitely, And so there's there's that. So if you

590
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 2: want to chime in, there's a lot of people that

591
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 2: have commented on this, so definitely go check that Out's

592
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 2: Battleground podcast on Instagram. That's where it's at. And I

593
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 2: guess is there, Oh, we saved the best for last,

594
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 2: so Dark Side of the Ring. We're supposed to get

595
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 2: the two part season of or the season premiere of

596
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 2: the Crispin Wahs Story, and all of a sudden, you know,

597
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 2: weis was like, you know what, here you go, everybody,

598
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 2: here's part one on YouTube. And let's just say that

599
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 2: part one. Holy crap. I mean, I don't know what

600
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 2: to say.

601
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was, it was. It was really surprising they

602
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 3: started with this episode just because of how heavy it was.

603
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 3: But and it was kind of cool seeing like the

604
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 3: first part of the episode it was kind of like

605
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 3: half Eddie Guerrero and half Crisp and whall, you know,

606
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 3: they kind of talked about both their stuff and but yeah,

607
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 3: it was. It was heavy. And then I guess on Tuesday,

608
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 3: the twenty fourth, they'll drop the second part of the episode,

609
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 3: and I guess that's going to get into the that

610
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 3: the really heavy stuff.

611
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Speaker 2: So yeah, and I mean you mentioned before that we

612
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Speaker 2: started talking, was like, you know, as soon as part

613
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 2: one ended, it ended so quickly, you're like, what the

614
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 2: hell just happened?

615
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was. I don't know what I was thinking,

616
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Speaker 3: but I was like, oh man, this is a two

617
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Speaker 3: hour episode. I only watched the one episode.

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Speaker 2: Dang. So but if you haven't done that and you're

619
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Speaker 2: kind of you know, self quarantined or you know you're

620
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 2: working from home, put that on and just kind of

621
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 2: take your lunch break at the house and watch it.

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00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 2: It's it's a good hour's worth of stuff. And you know,

623
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Speaker 2: if that just goes to show how you know this

624
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 2: season's gonna look. I mean, they're they're going to blow

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00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 2: this season out of the water.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this they got like I didn't even know they're

627
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 3: doing one on the road Warriors, so that's pretty dope.

628
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 3: But yeah, this one, and I don't know if they

629
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 3: just got more people involved or they had a bigger budget.

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00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 3: I don't know what the deal is, but it's I

631
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 3: think there's more stories this time, and it's more like

632
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 3: wide reaching stories. So yeah, we're pretty pretty stoked about it.

633
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 2: Because there's also one about Snooker and his girlfriend.

634
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 3: Oh the one he murdered. Mm hmm.

635
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Speaker 2: There's one on New Jack Let's see. I know that there's,

636
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 2: like you said, the l O D one We're all

637
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 2: for all they're doing, the one where David Schultz slapped

638
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 2: around that reporter, and there's quite a few other ones,

639
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 2: but this is that. This one's the heavy hitter.

640
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 3: Like I'm just like, wo yeah, I think this is

641
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 3: the one everyone has been waiting for, so I guess,

642
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 3: you know, come out of the gate with with the

643
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 3: hot sauce and you know, give give people what they want.

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00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:34,919
Speaker 2: Most definitely, and us as wrestling fans, it is very

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Speaker 2: good to watch that one, and it's you know, it's

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Speaker 2: really cool. You know that people are actually wanting to

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Speaker 2: do this because some people are like, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: and you know, you look at Jericho's doing it and

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Speaker 2: he I think he's narrating this this whole season, like

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Speaker 2: last season was Dutch and I think he's doing it.

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Speaker 2: And you don't see anybody tied with WWE because of

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Speaker 2: the moment that like, uh, you know, I I think

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Speaker 2: Vicky Guerrero still had some kind of like WWE thing,

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Speaker 2: but when she started doing that aw stuff, They're like nope,

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Speaker 2: no more.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So, I mean I think I don't know when

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Speaker 3: they filmed all that, but I mean one time they

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Speaker 3: all were wwe Malinko, Jeri Coke, Jim Ross, Vicky. I

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Speaker 3: think they talked about somebody else. But yeah, so yeah,

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Speaker 3: these shows are really well done, and you know, we

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Speaker 3: love the first season. We were lucky to talk to

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Speaker 3: dutch Mane Mantel last year. He was the narrator last season,

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Speaker 3: and I think he was on one episode at least

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Speaker 3: he might have been on more than one.

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Speaker 2: But he was on the Bruiser Brodie one because he

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Speaker 2: had like close ties with that situation.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, so that episode we've been talking about it

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Speaker 3: is on YouTube right now, and then the second episode

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Speaker 3: will be on Vice TV if you subscribe to that.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, so go subscribe to that and also subscribe

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Speaker 2: to this podcast and tell your friends is subscribed to

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Speaker 2: the podcast, because the more people subscribe, the better we

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00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 2: are getting up there and we can do more cool stuff.

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Speaker 2: Because I think what we're gonna do is, you know,

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Speaker 2: this is a little bit ways away, but once we

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00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 2: hit a certain number of subscribers to the podcast, we're

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Speaker 2: going to do a big giveaway, and I mean like

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Speaker 2: autograph stuff, possibly pay per view chairs. Eli's seen the

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Speaker 2: pay per view chairs before, so I have.

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Speaker 3: And for those that don't know, excuse me. At the

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Speaker 3: big pay per views, the first like four or five

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Speaker 3: rows ring side, they do like custom graphic chairs and

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Speaker 3: it's got the graphics of the pay per view and

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Speaker 3: yahd yah yadah. So when you pay the money for

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Speaker 3: those ringside seats, you get to keep those chairs at

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Speaker 3: the end of the night. And so the chairs kind

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Speaker 3: of become collectible too, because it's tied specifically to that

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Speaker 3: event and they only had X amount per event. So

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Speaker 3: but just being with the radio station as long as

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Speaker 3: Battle has, they've he's just accrued some over the years.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, and I'm looking at a fast Lane chair

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Speaker 2: from twenty seventeen right here in my home studio. I

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Speaker 2: think that's the one that's got Goldberg on it. I

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Speaker 2: don't know. I've got one that's there's Chris Jericho on there,

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Speaker 2: and a couple of WrestleMania ones and so yeah, so

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Speaker 2: we're gonna do a big thing. So make sure you

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Speaker 2: tell all your friends to go subscribe, give us five stars,

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Speaker 2: leave us a nice comment and review. Because that helps

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Speaker 2: us get pushed to the top and then we can

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Speaker 2: do this really awesome giveaway and then make sure that

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Speaker 2: you follow us on Instagram It's Battleground Podcast. Twitter is

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Speaker 2: Battleground IHR. And we also have a fancy, handy dandy website.

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Speaker 2: You can go to Battleground podcast dot com and that's

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Speaker 2: where you can buy our merch as well. Boom, there

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Speaker 2: it is, And that's gonna kind of wrap up the show.

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Speaker 2: It's it's been fun kind of sitting here with you

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Speaker 2: guys for the you know, the past a little bit

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Speaker 2: talking about wrestling and you know, taking my mind off

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Speaker 2: of what's going on outside my front door, of the

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Speaker 2: craziness that's going on in the world today.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we tried to stretch it out. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 3: obviously there's not a ton going on right now and

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Speaker 3: a lot of people are canceling stuff and shutting down.

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Speaker 3: He had YadA YadA, so you still got the big boys,

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Speaker 3: you know, WW and Aw's still doing a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 3: I think Ring and Honors stopped everything for the least

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Speaker 3: a little bit, and then in the NBA's kind of

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Speaker 3: postponed some stuff, so like you know, it's kind of a.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of hard to keep it, keep it going

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Speaker 3: when a big part of what you talk about has stopped,

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Speaker 3: you know. So like we're trying to trying to stay

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Speaker 3: active and trying to like keep throwing stuff out there.

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Speaker 3: But some of these shows may be shorter than others

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Speaker 3: just because there's not a lot going on right now.

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Speaker 3: But but we'll keep plugging along. Right.

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Speaker 2: Maybe what we'll do is we'll just you know, send

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Speaker 2: suggestions out there, and me and Eli will sit and

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Speaker 2: watch a certain pay per view and then we'll just

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Speaker 2: review that it's an episode. There you go. That'll be fun.

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Speaker 2: We could do that. So yeah, So if you have

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Speaker 2: any suggestions, or if you want us to talk about

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Speaker 2: something or you know whatever, just shoot us a little

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Speaker 2: tweet tweet tweet tweet over there Battleground ihrs where we're

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Speaker 2: out on Twitter. But that's gonna wrap up the show.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go and just self quarantine and play Xbox

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Speaker 2: probably for the rest of the day.

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Speaker 3: Sounds like a solid plan.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like a solid plant. So until next time, Happy trails, Audios.

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Speaker 4: We hope you enjoyed today's episode of the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 4: Make sure you give it five stars. And a nice review.

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