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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to.

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Speaker 2: Around.

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Speaker 1: This is a pro wrestling podcast with a hinge of

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Speaker 1: pop culture. Join Battle in Eli as they break down

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Speaker 1: the world of professional wrestling and pop culture with special

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Speaker 1: guests including wrestlers and comedians. You never know who's gonna

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Speaker 1: stop by now making their way to the microphones. Give

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Speaker 1: it up for the greatest podcast.

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Speaker 2: Tag team in the world, Battle Man, Ela. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's kind of funny you sit here and you see

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Speaker 2: interviews with this guy, and I love watching people kind

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Speaker 2: of try to say his name and then just the

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Speaker 2: look on his face when they're like, oh, British swab,

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Speaker 2: but it's not. It's Brendan shaub Is in the building? Man.

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 3: What's up? Doug?

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Speaker 2: How many times do people mess your name up in

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Speaker 2: the interviews?

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Speaker 3: You know what if if they've never heard of me,

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Speaker 3: they usually mess it up nine out of ten. But

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Speaker 3: hopefully I just got to keep on keeping on. I

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Speaker 3: just want to get famous enough where people stop messing

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Speaker 3: up my name. I want to get famous enough where

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Speaker 3: Starbucks doesn't put Brandon on the cup. That's all. That's

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Speaker 3: all I'm kind of aiming for.

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Speaker 2: You know, you got two shows tonight as Zanny's two

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Speaker 2: shows tomorrow night. So let's kind of just jump into

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Speaker 2: what made you decide to leave MMA and go into comedy?

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Speaker 3: Geez, where do I start? I don't know. I didn't

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Speaker 3: want to get punched in the face anymore.

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Speaker 2: I think that's that's a good reason, and I.

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Speaker 3: Just always want to do stand up, and weirdly enough,

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Speaker 3: through fighting, I found my way to stand up. You know,

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Speaker 3: I don't. I don't. It's been tough to pursue stand

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Speaker 3: up in my hometown in Denver. I could have done it,

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Speaker 3: but I don't think I would have had the same career.

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Speaker 3: You know, I didn't get started in the UFC and

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Speaker 3: then make my way to LA and then meet Brian Collen,

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Speaker 3: who's a stand up comic and actor, and then kind

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Speaker 3: of I just have this weird kind of history that

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Speaker 3: led me to where I'm at now doing stand.

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Speaker 2: Up, Right, And you talk about Brian, You've got the

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Speaker 2: podcast A Fighter in the Kid, and so did that

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Speaker 2: kind of start when you were just sitting around be like, hey,

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Speaker 2: let's start a podcast together.

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Him and I were buddies and he had a podcast,

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Speaker 3: had like eighteen listeners, and then I went on there

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Speaker 3: and then he was like, man, that was really fun.

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Speaker 3: We should do one every week. I was like, man,

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Speaker 3: I'm busy. I was trying to pursue, you know, a

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Speaker 3: heavyweight championship in the UFC. I was like, I'm busy.

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Speaker 3: I really don't want to do it. He was, dude,

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Speaker 3: let's just get together on your off day. We'll just

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Speaker 3: talk about whatever you want and let's see what happens. Like,

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Speaker 3: all right, what do you want to call it? He said?

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Speaker 3: We call it the Fight and the Kid. I'm like,

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Speaker 3: who's the kid? He's like me, that's what they call

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Speaker 3: me on set. Turns out years later I found out

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Speaker 3: he made up that name and no one calls him

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Speaker 3: the kid. But nonetheless, we're fighting the kid. So we

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Speaker 3: just started doing it, and then it you know, and

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Speaker 3: this was when before you know, everyone and their mom

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Speaker 3: had a podcast. Right, you know, we're we're doing it

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Speaker 3: back in the day. And I think six seven years later,

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Speaker 3: you know, here we are, man, and it's that thing

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Speaker 3: kind of that's what got me out of out of fighting, right.

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Speaker 2: Did you did you ever think that that would take off?

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Speaker 2: Or did you kind of think I'm going to stay

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Speaker 2: in UFC? And then a tempt you know, comedy.

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Speaker 3: After no, I I thought, you know, I knew I

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Speaker 3: could do some media stuff because the UF he would

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Speaker 3: always send me to like a do ESPN analyst work

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Speaker 3: for them, and Fox would pick me up to do stuff.

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Speaker 3: And then I was doing local TV spots on TV

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Speaker 3: in La, so I knew I was gonna do some

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Speaker 3: form of media. I didn't know what it was going

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Speaker 3: to be. And then the podcast. I didn't know you

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Speaker 3: could make money from it. I had no idea, right,

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Speaker 3: and then uh yeah, just kind.

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Speaker 2: Of everything took off. The rest is history. And then,

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Speaker 2: you know, speaking of history, let's kind of go back.

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Speaker 2: You're walking up first headlining set to do comedy. What's

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Speaker 2: going through your mind?

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Speaker 3: Man? I mean first headlining set would been in the

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Speaker 3: belly room, uh two something two and a half years ago,

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Speaker 3: and I was like, man, they're gonna ask me to

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Speaker 3: headline the bellroom. That's awesome. I was like, I wonder

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Speaker 3: why they're asking me. I can't believe that. And I

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Speaker 3: found out was the same night as the the Dodgers

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Speaker 3: were in like Game six of the World Series and

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Speaker 3: there was four people there. So so was.

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Speaker 2: It a little less nerve wracking or when you walk out,

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Speaker 2: you're like, Okay, here's four people I can try some

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Speaker 2: stuff for.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's all nerve wrecking, especially you know, you're

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Speaker 3: just trying to get comfortable, and I especially wasn't comfortable

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Speaker 3: at that time at the Comedy Store. So it's all

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Speaker 3: even you know, even tonight at Zani's Saturday night sold out,

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Speaker 3: there's tickets left for a Friday night show. So even

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Speaker 3: these shows, I know my set, but I always get nervous. Man.

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Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, so let me ask you this kind

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Speaker 2: of question. You see this a lot going on, MMA

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Speaker 2: fighters going to wrestling and boxing and then vice versa.

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Speaker 2: What's your take on that? Like, for example, you know,

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Speaker 2: you look at the Mayweather McGregor fire.

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Speaker 3: That was a one one of you know, I don't

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Speaker 3: think you'll see too much of that. I think, you know,

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Speaker 3: people reference it like oh boxing MMA that you know

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Speaker 3: that that really didn't work out. It worked out pay

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Speaker 3: per view wise, but talent wise, you're never gonna I

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Speaker 3: don't think you can see that again. That's yeah, it

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Speaker 3: was kind of a free, kind of just spur of

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Speaker 3: the moment thing. It worked out, but I don't think

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Speaker 3: you see a ton of that.

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Speaker 2: And then you kind of got like, seeing Punk went

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Speaker 2: from wrestling to uf how.

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Speaker 3: Did that work out? Are you? Are you a wrestling fan?

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Speaker 3: I'm both to your point of like seeing Punk coming over, like,

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Speaker 3: how'd that work out? Man? It was a disaster for

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Speaker 3: that guy. He got beat up.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, his first two fights, right, Yeah, it was

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Speaker 2: awful for him.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure he made money. If that's what he's going for,

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Speaker 3: congrats and is a good experience for him. But I

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Speaker 3: think it's good. But then you guys got you got

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Speaker 3: guys like brock Lessner who you know, a legit you know,

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Speaker 3: wrestler and Monster and he came over and very successful.

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Speaker 3: So that's good. But I think it's good that Connor

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Speaker 3: came over to boxing, got dealt with, Seeing Punk came

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Speaker 3: over to UFC, got dealt with. I think it's good.

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Speaker 3: It shows you, you know, the level these guys are at.

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Speaker 2: Were you expecting that outcome for the Mayweather McGregor fight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think everyone was. You know, I expected to

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Speaker 3: kind of do good early on and then it kind of,

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Speaker 3: you know, took over. So thank god it's over.

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Speaker 2: So you've got two shows left Tonight Tomorrow night sold out?

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir?

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Speaker 2: What can someone expect from a stand up show.

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Speaker 3: I brought my two monsters from the Comedy Store, Derek

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Speaker 3: Posen and Asana mod And you know, I just shot

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Speaker 3: my Showtime comedy special, so I have all new hour

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Speaker 3: now and we're around the nation touring man, and life is.

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Speaker 2: Good, mass crazy stuff. So what's uh? I know you

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Speaker 2: talk about your tour in the comedy for Showtime. What's

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Speaker 2: the rest of twenty nineteen? Is there going to be

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Speaker 2: another special comment? Are we going to do a movie? Uh?

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Speaker 3: No, just keep continuing doing stand up in my podcast

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Speaker 3: King of Sting, find the Kid and then blow the belt.

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Speaker 3: And then next year we'll announce a new tour called

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Speaker 3: fifty Shades of Brown and it's all theater tour.

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Speaker 2: And so yeah, man, it's gonna be a big twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty for you right there, hopefully.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 2: Brittan Shop is my guest right now, Zanies tonight, get

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Speaker 2: your tickets Zanies dot com. And such an honor to

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Speaker 2: have you here.

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Speaker 3: Thank you man, thanks for stoping bout men appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: We hope you enjoyed this week's episode of Battleground.

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