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Speaker 1: Now you're made event introducing ghosts are Wrestling with Freddy

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Speaker 1: Jef died hand of Freddy Prince Junior.

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Speaker 2: What's up, everybody? Welcome to another episode of Wrestling with

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Speaker 2: Freddy Jeff. Die is on location and unavailable, but we

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Speaker 2: didn't leave you hanging because today we have a very

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Speaker 2: special guest, and I'll start with this. One thing that

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Speaker 2: every wrestling fan has caught themselves saying is while they're

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Speaker 2: watching a match and they see something and they go,

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Speaker 2: oh my god, how did you miss that call? Oh

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Speaker 2: my god, how are you not in the right place?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god? Turn around and look at what you're

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Speaker 2: missing Right now, today we have brought a very special referee.

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Speaker 2: We have brought mister Daniel Spencer. And just so you

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Speaker 2: know a little history on the man and you understand

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Speaker 2: his expert opinion and I'll soon be educated and he

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Speaker 2: can choose to defend his profession if he so wishes.

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Speaker 2: He is a senior official at OVW Ohio Valley Wrestling

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Speaker 2: for those of you who don't know and just listen

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Speaker 2: for fun since twenty nineteen, and in twenty twenty made

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Speaker 2: his debut refereeing in Impact Wrestling, which is a part

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Speaker 2: of the premier streaming network, so sign up for that

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Speaker 2: and you can watch Impact there if you're a cable

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Speaker 2: cutter like most of us. Mister Daniel Spencer, how are you, sir?

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: I'm great, Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Nice intro there. I couldn't do it better.

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Speaker 2: Myself, so thanks man. I have met many a referee.

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Speaker 2: I have had many a late night conversations with a referee,

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Speaker 2: but when I worked in WWE, they were more interested

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Speaker 2: in asking questions than answering questions. And I've never gotten

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Speaker 2: to ask this question to a ref before. How the

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Speaker 2: hell do you become a referee? And what made you

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Speaker 2: say that's what I'm gonna do? You know, it's it's

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Speaker 2: really I got a unique story. Growing up a wrestling fan.

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Speaker 2: I always wanted to be a part of wrestling.

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Speaker 3: Never really like thought about referee and I mean I

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Speaker 3: had there was the goat referees right here, Charles Robinson's

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Speaker 3: your earl Headner's and was like, those guys are cool,

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Speaker 3: but it was never a thing. I always wanted to

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Speaker 3: be a wrestler. At the time I was you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm five foot eleven, so i'm I got too short.

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Speaker 3: Now nowadays it doesn't matter, but you know, in the

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Speaker 3: early two thousands, it was. It was a big deal.

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Speaker 3: It was tough, and so yeah, it was tough. So

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Speaker 3: I just kind of thought, well, maybe I'll be a

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Speaker 3: so I'll maybe go to that round in wrestling. But

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Speaker 3: you know, life got away never really did. I started

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Speaker 3: a podcast to talk about wrestling. I love for wrestling

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Speaker 3: was I'm in I'm based in Louisvill, Kentucky, So growing

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Speaker 3: up around OVW, I had a lot of friends at OVW,

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Speaker 3: So i'd bring those guys on an interview and stuff

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Speaker 3: like that, and somebody you brought on or doing benefit show,

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Speaker 3: and I literally brought them on and was like talking

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Speaker 3: about the benefit show and I jokingly said, hey, if

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Speaker 3: and they were like, yeah, yeah, sure, come on, and

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Speaker 3: we got them recording. I thought it was just podcast banter,

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Speaker 3: come on out. So I did and I got in

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Speaker 3: and everybody there could like, you know, not the brag,

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Speaker 3: but they were just shocked that it was my only

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Speaker 3: I wasn't perfect obviously, but I knew enough to I

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Speaker 3: just snowballed into more and I started doing training, started

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Speaker 3: I'm didn't get get to go to OVW and start

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Speaker 3: working learning TV and then from then got the now

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Speaker 3: but pretty pretty cool. At the same time.

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Speaker 2: You said training, is there a free school that you

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Speaker 2: go to or do you just get in with a

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Speaker 3: It's you want to do your basic training when it

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Speaker 3: they don't really teach referee and they just yeah, you

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Speaker 3: just stand here or be here. You know, it's more

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Speaker 3: of a get out the way or they should one

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Speaker 3: hundred percent they should teach refereen And that's way. We

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Speaker 3: there and and like I said, there's seminars and whatnot

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Speaker 3: that I've been a part of where I've helped, you know, teach.

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Speaker 3: But I think it's important for wrestlers to learn the

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Speaker 3: those wrestlers I've talked to that I've worked with, they're

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Speaker 3: literally like when they when they learn something, they go,

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Speaker 3: I never understood that the importance of you being in

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Speaker 3: should be and we bring and like I said, we

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Speaker 3: bring it in OVW. We make at certain a couple

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Speaker 3: to help them be a better wrestler, and then they

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Speaker 3: want to be a referee. You know, some do transition

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Speaker 3: of former workers that are now referees too as well,

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Speaker 3: so it happens.

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Speaker 2: It's a very insightful thing. You said that all wrestlers

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Speaker 2: should learn the art of refereeing. I've always found that

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Speaker 2: every director who also went to acting class and learned

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Speaker 2: the craft of that, whether they were any good at

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Speaker 2: were always ten times the directors who didn't have that experience,

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Speaker 2: every single time. So it's a great way just to

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Speaker 2: sort of train your brain anyway. It's like when psychiatrists

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Speaker 2: tell you to brush your teeth with your opposite hand, right,

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Speaker 2: because it activates a different part of your brain, and

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Speaker 2: that's why you feel like a three year old trying

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Speaker 3: But when you.

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Speaker 2: Take in it's like every man, what was that show,

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Speaker 2: the Secret Boss show? I don't know what it was

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Speaker 2: called Hidden Boss something where ye thank you undercover boss,

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Speaker 2: much better titled than mine. You know, they would sort

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Speaker 2: of see the other half of the business. And it's

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Speaker 2: important for the foreman to know what every machine does

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Speaker 2: they got to the foreman position because they had enough

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Speaker 3: Do all that.

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Speaker 2: When you add those extra tools to your belt, it

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Speaker 2: only it only makes you better. And you're right as well.

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Speaker 2: A lot of a lot of guys that wanted to

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Speaker 2: be wrestlers and girls have transitioned into the referee world

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Speaker 2: and they're all doing a good job except when they

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Speaker 2: miss calls, which you know happens.

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Speaker 3: It does happen. Unfortunately, we know we have two sets

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Speaker 3: of oas. I wish there was other ways around it,

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Speaker 3: but you know, we've that the industries evolved so much,

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Speaker 3: unless it's important. Sometimes there are reviews, and you know,

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Speaker 3: we get things overturned, but for the most part, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's things happen and we miss stuff. I was gonna say,

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Speaker 3: you know, well, people people that are I would say,

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Speaker 3: like a you know he's not here today, but you know,

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Speaker 3: like a Jeff Dive like he's a manager, right kind

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Speaker 3: to just get up on top of the apron. He're like, dude,

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Speaker 3: then something happens behind me, and I have no idea

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Speaker 2: So he could be a good distraction. He could be

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Speaker 2: a good distraction. I'll get into some constructive criticism down

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Speaker 2: the road. But a lot of my listeners just listen

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Speaker 2: for fun and they're not educated on wrestling, and they

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Speaker 2: listening to this, whether they watch or not. I need

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Speaker 2: you to break down and explain what a referee's responsibilities

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Speaker 2: in any way, shape or form. You're not just observing

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Speaker 2: and officiating. There is a next level of communication that

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Speaker 2: try and illustrate that for me if you could.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So there there's a lot, I don't know what.

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Speaker 3: The curtain's been pulled back so much in this industry now,

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Speaker 3: you know you've seen it and other stuff too as well.

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Speaker 3: But one of the things that I mean, obviously number one,

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Speaker 3: even when they take a big bump and they're selling.

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Speaker 3: To make sure that the selling is is selling the

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Speaker 3: with TV, we have IFBs, we have ear pieces in

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Speaker 3: you know, people letting us know where things are time wise,

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Speaker 3: in the camera shot things like that too as well.

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Speaker 3: We've got to do and and you know Tom Cus

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Speaker 3: yeah there might be TOMQ said as well. But the

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Speaker 3: other thing too is that you know, you're communicating back

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Speaker 3: a lot of times you have to let people know

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Speaker 3: what let them let each other know what's going on,

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Speaker 3: but it's never a.

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Speaker 2: Push bro, It's only what you're comfortable saying.

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Speaker 3: It's a very important job, and you know it's we

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Speaker 3: are not you know, the joke around is that we

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Speaker 3: don't referees, don't celtic as. We cop tickets, right, so

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Speaker 3: it's like never heard that. No, really, yeah, we don't

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Speaker 3: sell them, we comp them. So there's you know, they're

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Speaker 3: not and what that means is they're not there to

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Speaker 3: see us. They're there to see the talent in the ring.

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Speaker 3: So our job is to kind of be there when

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Speaker 3: we need to be there, but be be the you know,

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Speaker 3: be unseen woman need to be unseen, which is usually

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Speaker 3: ninety percent of the time we need to be unseen.

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Speaker 3: So that's that's kind of the other hard part of

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Speaker 2: You prefer that. I've heard you multiple times talk about

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Speaker 2: So all right, Daniel Spencer, it's time it's time to

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Speaker 2: introduce a brand new segment on Wrestling with Freddy the

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Speaker 2: segment I like to call I got.

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Speaker 3: Some sweet sound effects for this too.

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Speaker 2: Ref court Dun dundun. Those were the sweet sound effects

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Speaker 2: that was that was?

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Speaker 3: That was impressive? All right? Man?

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Speaker 2: the show, and we will address the week in wrestling,

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Speaker 2: in an episode of Law and Order, but a damn

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Speaker 2: good one, an opportunity to defend the offense and get

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Speaker 2: do you do? How do you feel about this?

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Speaker 3: I like that idea. Yeah, I'm gaining for that. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Listen, there's historical events with with Earl, obviously that I'm

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Speaker 2: sure he hates having to relive every day of his life,

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Speaker 2: but it's it's the most famous one, and then it's

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Speaker 3: El Earl made a lot of money off of that

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Speaker 3: damn right, I did it. They're just they're just white,

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Speaker 3: you know, they do not stripes. Yeah, they say damn right,

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Speaker 2: He go.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Now granted he you know, he realized later he

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Speaker 2: Good for him, man, good for you never know how

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Speaker 2: something like that's going to hit somebody, because you know,

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Speaker 2: it was every every arena he was in every show,

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Speaker 2: you would hear people you screwed. Oh yeah, yeah. He

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Speaker 2: Do you remember the Brian Bosworth, the NFL player, Like, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: they would he would go to He got drafted by

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Speaker 2: that said like kill Brian Bosworth and sold them in

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Speaker 2: It was like MJF. When MJF was like all full

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Speaker 2: Brian Bosworth, like all this shit, and he was just

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Speaker 3: And that's what Haurle did. Man, he flipped it up.

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Speaker 3: I love that. Wow, that's that's that's pretty amazing. That's

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Speaker 2: We oh, yeah, man, we have to get you a

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Speaker 2: and say you're damn You're damn right.

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Speaker 3: I cheated. Well, I mean, you know, if it works

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Speaker 2: We'll see otherwise. Yeah, otherwise, my man Daniel Spencer calls

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Speaker 3: People.

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Speaker 2: All right, So let me give you an example, all right.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not going to name this referee because this

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Speaker 2: this referee and do their own research. That's fine, and

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Speaker 2: the only information I'll give is it was on August

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Speaker 2: like to thank all of our listeners for today's for

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Speaker 2: your attention. Today, I like to thank our guest Daniel Spencer.

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Speaker 2: He's going to be with us on Unsanctioned Thursdays on

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Speaker 2: behalf of the Great Jackpot. Jeff Die who too bad? Jeff,

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Speaker 2: you don't get to be a wrestler, Daniel says, you'd

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Speaker 2: be a better manager.

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Speaker 3: Ha ha.

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Speaker 2: I'm Freddie Brienz Junior and this was wrestling with Freddy.

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