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Speaker 1: Why from the Parts Unknown Studios into the Battle Crowd.

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Speaker 2: The Battle.

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Speaker 3: The Battle Crowd, Welcome to the Battleground Podcast, your place

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Speaker 3: for all things pro wrestling. The Battle Crowd now making

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Speaker 3: their way to the microphoneses give it up for your hosts.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to the Battle Crown.

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Speaker 2: What's up you guys.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back to another episode of the Battleground Podcast. iHeartRadio's

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Speaker 4: official wrestling podcast. I'm your host Battle Gonna go ahead

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Speaker 4: and bring in my tag team partner Eli.

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Speaker 2: My man, there he is. How you doing, Buddy? Is

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Speaker 2: that is that a code of like who's gonna be on?

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Speaker 4: I mean I think so. When we first started having

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Speaker 4: him on the As soon as we got him on

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Speaker 4: before we started recording, I was.

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Speaker 2: Like, Moose, Moose, Moose, Moose, Moose.

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Speaker 4: And there he is, Moose, the wrestling God, the Impact

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Speaker 4: Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion. As our guests on the show, Moose,

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Speaker 4: thanks for joining the show today.

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Speaker 2: Man, how are you.

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Speaker 5: I'm doing great? Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for coming on the show.

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Speaker 4: When we got the email from Ross, I was like,

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Speaker 4: you can't turn the champ down. You cannot say no.

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Speaker 4: And Moose has been one of the guys that every

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Speaker 4: time Ross has sent out the email, I'm like, can

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Speaker 4: we have Moose? He's like no, he's off doing champion things.

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Speaker 4: He's not going to tolerate just some pitily weink podcast

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Speaker 4: over there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and now we finally got Moose.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. I'm excited to be on. Let's let's check.

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Speaker 2: Man. I'm super pumped to have you on.

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Speaker 4: And I really want to talk about this, like how

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Speaker 4: does it feel when people say the Raining and defending

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Speaker 4: Impact World Champion Moose.

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Speaker 5: Show was good?

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Speaker 3: Guys, There's a lot of work that I put in

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Speaker 3: to be in the position that man, And I mean,

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Speaker 3: who you when you come to wrestling, Obviously, one of

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Speaker 3: your goals is definitely to be the world champ of

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Speaker 3: whatever promotion that you're working with. And that has been

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Speaker 3: one of my one of my goals and I'm just

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Speaker 3: my goal is to keep it as long as.

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Speaker 5: Possible for sure.

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Speaker 4: And you know, we sat there because we were at

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Speaker 4: the Impact tapings when they were in Nashville, and you know,

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Speaker 4: we watched the pay per view Joshuan and I was like, oh,

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Speaker 4: this is cool, Like josh is kind of getting his recognition. No,

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Speaker 4: it didn't last very long. Is that the shortest impact

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Speaker 4: wrestling rain ever? Once you cashed in?

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Speaker 2: Was that? Josh holds that record?

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Speaker 5: Now, yeah, it's about thirty seconds.

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Speaker 4: I mean, however long it took you to get from

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Speaker 4: was going into that? Was that kind of the game plan?

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Speaker 4: Like you knew that you were going to cash it

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Speaker 3: I had an idea of when I was going to

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Speaker 3: right moment. I knew because I would I mean, I

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Speaker 3: was thinking about it. What would I do if this

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Speaker 3: of pay per view, I would probably want my family

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Speaker 3: especially if I won. So I knew he wouldn't be

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Speaker 3: thinking about be cashing it in. I mean, yeah, so

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Speaker 3: I thought that was the right moment to strike, and

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Speaker 3: it was I was right, And.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely like to watch and as a father myself,

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Speaker 4: like I sit there and I was like, that's gotta hurt,

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Speaker 4: because you like, not only embarrass him by giving him

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Speaker 4: a short title reign. But you embarrassed in front of

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Speaker 4: to look up to that and be like, what happened?

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Speaker 5: Uh? Let down for him, for his wife and his kids.

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Speaker 4: So but hey, Moose, Moose gotta eat. Moose gotta get

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Speaker 4: take it, you know, take care of himself.

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Speaker 6: So yeah, So looking looking back on your year in

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Speaker 1: Was it the I mean, was it the apex for you?

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Speaker 6: Was it still kind of weird because I guess half

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Speaker 3: So twenty twenty one for me was a year of growth,

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Speaker 3: was the year of learning. It was a year of

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Speaker 5: It was just a show that hard work does pay off,

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Speaker 2: Sure, and you know, it's been fun. Why Impact evolve

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Speaker 4: Can remember being at the very first Impact. I wasn't

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Speaker 4: at the one in Alabama. I was at the one

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Speaker 4: the official first n w A TNA Impact and or

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Speaker 4: the years and seeing who's coming in and who's going

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Speaker 4: and you know, right move having having Moose as the

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Speaker 4: World heavyweight Champion, and I know that there's a lot

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Speaker 4: of stuff. There's a lot of great champions that have

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Speaker 4: held that title before you. And you know, there was

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Speaker 4: Morrissey and Matt Cardona, both guys have been on this show,

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Speaker 4: and we had a we had this streak going that

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Speaker 4: you're the brock lessner of ending streaks on our shows

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Speaker 4: for getting that done. But what was uh, I guess

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Speaker 4: your mindset heading into that match knowing you didn't have

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Speaker 3: No, I mean it was definitely some close spots there

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Speaker 3: where I almost did lose. And I mean, the honest

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Speaker 3: truth is, I'm in there with two great competitors. I mean,

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Speaker 3: So it was definitely wasn't gonna be a walking apart

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Speaker 3: you know, And I knew it wasn't gonna be an

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Speaker 3: But pulling that Mattress shows how great I am by

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Speaker 3: That's a Matt Cardono too, great formidable competitors, you know

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Speaker 3: what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, so who's who's next?

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Speaker 5: Who's next?

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Speaker 4: I guess that's just I feel as if you kind

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Speaker 4: of had the upper hand when it came to W Morcy,

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Speaker 4: because when we had him on, we talked about you

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Speaker 2: You I feel as if you had a one up

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Speaker 3: Correct, I wouldn't necessarily say a one up, but I

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Speaker 3: mean I know his strengths and I know his weakness.

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Speaker 3: I do a lot of studying of my opponents, and

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Speaker 3: And I mean, like I said, he almost did. He

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Speaker 3: what if the work route what I have caught out?

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Speaker 3: He be the world champion? But yeah, I came in

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Speaker 3: together and I'm still impact World champion.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Now, one person you've credited with your on your journey

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Speaker 6: to the World Championship was EC three and you guys

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Speaker 1: I guess you might call it a fit thematic match

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Speaker 6: Anyways, you guys had your match at a homecoming two

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Speaker 6: new Impact World Champion and do you plan on working

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Speaker 6: with him more in the future now that you're calling

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Speaker 5: I haven't really. We don't really talk about wrestling.

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Speaker 3: I think our friendship is greater than that of professional wrestling,

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Speaker 3: It is more about life stuff and workout habits and

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Speaker 4: Do you want to share some of those workout habits,

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Speaker 4: because boy, do I need to get my ass back

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Speaker 4: in the gym work. Gets the emails of like, hey,

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Speaker 4: there's pizza in the breakroom for all six of you

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna stick with my water, my cup of Greek

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Speaker 2: So that's what I'm gonna be doing.

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Speaker 3: It's all about consistency, man, Like I mean, trust me,

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Speaker 3: I know that feeling because the last five days I've

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Speaker 3: But as soon as I get home tonight, I'm going

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Speaker 3: shows half. I have a show in Fort Lauderdale next

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Speaker 2: Me tell you. I follow you on Instagram and I'm like, dude,

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Speaker 4: Some of the workout videos you post, and I'm like,

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Speaker 4: there's no way that I ever want to take a

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Speaker 4: very I will look like a like one of those

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Speaker 2: That's That's what I don't plan to do.

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Speaker 4: But you know, impact Wrestling's got two nights of action

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Speaker 4: twenty first, twenty second at the Charles Dodge Center and

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Speaker 4: Pimbrook Pines, Florida. And I believe that was it's the

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Speaker 3: No, we definitely haven't had one since I've been here,

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Speaker 5: Way with that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just stay far away from the chap, That's all

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Speaker 4: And I think that's gonna happen because I mean, Impact

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Speaker 2: For sure.

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Speaker 1: And we're we're a couple of belt guys.

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Speaker 6: Yo, jeez man, that looks so good on the red Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I know why it was turned down.

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Speaker 3: It was one of those things where I mean, I

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Speaker 5: I understand why.

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Speaker 3: But when that was all say like, if I keep

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Speaker 4: Yeah, right, And uh, you know, I got to tell

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Speaker 4: kind of wish that the red trap would come out there.

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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, we we we kind of marked out

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Speaker 4: let you go, because I got something.

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Speaker 1: Real real quick. When when can we expect Impact toys.

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Speaker 1: I think it's been long enough and they just had.

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Speaker 5: I think they they do have toys, right, because.

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Speaker 2: The micro Brawlers they've got that.

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Speaker 6: I've seen some of that, and I think Cardona's doing

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Speaker 1: But I mean, like, I'm ready.

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Speaker 6: I'm ready for like a line, I'm ready for the

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm thinking the champ has some sort of

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Speaker 3: Oh my, that's way past my pay grade. I don't

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Speaker 5: But yeah, I'm sure it will be.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure that's something that obviously the company is working

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they stood for them, not to make more, right,

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Speaker 2: Hope there's some toy stuff.

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Speaker 4: But you know, again, Impact Wrestling is returning to Florida.

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Speaker 4: There is two nights of action Friday and Saturday, January

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Speaker 4: twenty first twenty second at the Charles Dodge Center. Of course,

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Speaker 4: you can grab tickets on online, go to Impact Wrestling

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Speaker 4: dot com. Moose real quick, We'll let you go because

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Speaker 4: I know the champce time is very, very valuable.

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Speaker 2: Where can people keep up with you online?

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Speaker 3: Of how negative it is, But my Twitter is the

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Speaker 3: Mooselation and my Instagram, which with what I use more

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Speaker 3: is Moose Nation sixty nine.

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Speaker 4: There it is Moose again, the wrestling God, the reigning

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Speaker 4: defending Impact World Champion, Moose Again. It's been an honor

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Speaker 4: to have you on the show. Definitely gonna have to

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Speaker 4: get you back on very very soon.

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