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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. Join 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.

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Speaker 2: You never know who's.

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Speaker 1: Gonna stop by now making their.

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Speaker 2: Way to the microphone.

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Speaker 1: Give it up for the greatest podcast team in the world,

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Speaker 1: Battle and Eli.

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Speaker 2: What is up you guys?

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Speaker 3: Welcome to another episode of the weekly wrestling podcast we

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Speaker 3: like to call the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 2: I am your host battle and Well, I'm very lonely.

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Speaker 2: My co host is not here.

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Speaker 3: But this is the Friday episode, which means we have

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Speaker 3: a special guest, and of course we have the special

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Speaker 3: guests in studio right now with us. I gotta say, like,

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Speaker 3: one thing I love about doing this show is the

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Speaker 3: everybody that comes on the show and everybody's unique background

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Speaker 3: of wrestling. And today in the studio right now, we've

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Speaker 3: got can I just say, the man, the myth, the legend,

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Speaker 3: the biggest dude in the world. Right now, Jack's Dane

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Speaker 3: is in the building with us.

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Speaker 4: What's all dude, Man, I'm doing great, but I think

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure I'm worthy of all that.

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Speaker 2: I am a man.

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Speaker 4: I don't know that I'm a mythory legend, but I

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Speaker 4: sure do appreciate that introduction.

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Speaker 3: Man, dude, it's I mean, looking at your stats online,

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Speaker 3: it's the man, the myth and the legend in our

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Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that. Man. I hope not to disappoint today,

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Speaker 2: not at all. So let's let's go back to the

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Speaker 2: very very beginning.

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Speaker 3: Tell us about your background, how you got into professional wrestling,

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Speaker 3: how you got your training, all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, new story. So I played basketball in college.

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Speaker 4: Everybody freaks out when I tell him that I was

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Speaker 4: a shooting guard and a point guard, got my college degree.

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Speaker 4: He got out of college, and it's having a real

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Speaker 4: bad day in the corporate world, like everybody does when

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Speaker 4: you right out in. My roommate in college, for SPAN

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Speaker 4: was a guy by the name of Jake Blau, and

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Speaker 4: his dad was Bubba Dean Blau, who used to be

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Speaker 4: be one of the lead cameramen for WWE, and he

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Speaker 4: he put me inside one day and uh, he said, Hey,

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Speaker 4: I don't know if you've ever thought about a career

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Speaker 4: with how you look, how you care yourself, I think

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Speaker 2: Out of wrestling professional Okay, I keep that in mind.

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Speaker 4: You know, I was a huge fan, like everybody crying

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Speaker 2: I mean, it had been six eight months since I,

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Speaker 4: I called him, man, and he said, okay, he said,

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Speaker 4: here's what I need. I need you to send an

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Speaker 4: email to this guy. And it was doctor Tom Pritchett.

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Speaker 4: Research on doctor Tom because even though I was a

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Speaker 4: Maybe Jake's dad can help me, Maybe he can't. So

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Speaker 4: the next day, I'm training at a gym with my

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Speaker 4: Sure, So I went up on spur of the moment

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Speaker 2: Man. I caught on like it was like wildfire. Man.

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Speaker 4: But being a college athlete, people are constantly throwing information

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Speaker 4: Just wasn't floundering or flailing, but just hadn't found my

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Speaker 2: Man, we caught this ship early. We were able to

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Speaker 4: Radiation chemotherapy, and she's she's healthy, she's recovering right, right,

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Speaker 4: But I'm not sure i want to wrestle because now

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Speaker 4: I mean, the roster are a lot of my friends, now,

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Speaker 4: It was real close to whin Lance Archer or Lance Hoyt,

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Speaker 2: Was on the show last trial, and God bless him,

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Speaker 4: And I mean there's really one dude that's been in

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Speaker 2: Every bit of success.

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Speaker 4: He gets every bit of it, man, from being in

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm pulling for him.

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Speaker 4: But anyway, I start wrestling at this little wrestling promotion

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Speaker 4: Month, and that's all I'm going to do. That's all

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Speaker 4: get hung with a noose. Oh, a noose. We're going

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Speaker 4: to hang you with a noose. No, you're not going

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Speaker 2: The history books. Yeah, we don't.

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Speaker 4: We don't need that shit. I feel like we don't

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Speaker 4: my ex wife Lola, who lives up in Manhattan and

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Speaker 4: And there's no way you're gonna hang me with a

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Speaker 2: Empathize with with what's going on.

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Speaker 4: So, no, you're not gonna hanging with the news that

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Speaker 2: I was like, man, are you kidding? All right? And

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Speaker 4: And Impact works with him and wanted us down there

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Speaker 4: and you not in my and I won't There's no

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Speaker 4: way I'll work with that company. But regardless, So then

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Speaker 4: all right, Now I'm in San Antonio. I'm living in Austin,

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Speaker 4: I'm thinking, man, we can do this, butter So I

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Speaker 3: Right, Man, it's such an honor to have you, and

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Speaker 4: Well, it's it's and they've both changed in my last

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Speaker 4: The presentation has changed dramatically, right, I mean less storytelling more,

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Speaker 2: The dojos that they train in.

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Speaker 4: And they still like the dojo stuff that they do,

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Speaker 3: Now, would you go back to wrestle in Japan if

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Speaker 4: And and I still think, I mean to your point earlier

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Speaker 2: Because it's it's good.

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Speaker 3: Now, Well, we're going to put it out there in

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Speaker 2: It wouldn't be a bad thing, man, I think.

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Speaker 2: Man they just booked me the Houston.

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Speaker 4: The NWA Houston at the time, just booked me in Texas,

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Speaker 2: And then it just took off and exploded. Man. Like

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Speaker 4: It's funny if you do the I think I've I've

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Speaker 3: Hey, we're gonna have to get our interns on that too. Yeah, man,

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, it's the highlight of your career because it puts

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Speaker 2: From you, right, because there's so much history behind that pan. Yeah. Man.

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Speaker 4: How I treat people, how I treat the business, how

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Speaker 4: You can critique me, you can praise me. I've got

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Speaker 4: That's all I care about, man. Just I mean, we

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Speaker 4: to give a shit about what somebody who's never taken

440
00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,440
Speaker 4: a bump says about.

441
00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,600
Speaker 2: How I do my job the internet trolls, I don't care.

442
00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,159
Speaker 2: You can praise me, you can shit on me. I

443
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,040
Speaker 2: don't care. But one thing you will never be able

444
00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:04,000
Speaker 2: to say is.

445
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,560
Speaker 4: That guy didn't have ethics, morals, integrity and character.

446
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,439
Speaker 3: Now, after listening to you talk about this, do I

447
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,360
Speaker 3: have to go to church on Sunday? Because you literally

448
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 3: just took me to church right now? Like I mean,

449
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 3: if you look, I'm getting the hair on my arm

450
00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,040
Speaker 3: is standing up, goosebumpch just here, and you talk about that, Dan.

451
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,600
Speaker 4: I mean, and that's just that's how I try to

452
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,600
Speaker 4: live life. I mean, not to plug my own shirt, but.

453
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,879
Speaker 2: Go ahead and plug it. Love better, livet kinder, work harder.

454
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 2: There it is, man.

455
00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:34,639
Speaker 3: Literally, if you just look and nobody can see this

456
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,199
Speaker 3: right now, but the hair on my arms stand up

457
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:37,919
Speaker 3: after just hearing that.

458
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, it's just we get so caught up in

459
00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,440
Speaker 4: the shit in this world. That doesn't matter.

460
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,000
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, you've spent your

461
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,160
Speaker 2: entire career.

462
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,760
Speaker 4: Whether it be wrestling or work or a corporate job

463
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 4: or whatever you do to provide for your people. We

464
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,439
Speaker 4: get all get so caught up in that that we

465
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 4: forget our people right, our friends becoming on the back burner,

466
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 4: our parents get pushed aside. Had a conversation this morning

467
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 4: with a guy that I respect a lot. He's his

468
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 4: father passed away about six months ago, and he told

469
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,480
Speaker 4: me this morning we had this conversation.

470
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 2: He said, I should have spent more time with my dad.

471
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:19,920
Speaker 2: I should have talked to my dad more.

472
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,919
Speaker 4: But I was so caught up in being successful that

473
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 4: that slides to the back burner. And that's all of us,

474
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 4: that's human nature. But we've got to start reversing that thinking.

475
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,920
Speaker 2: And for me, I personally.

476
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 4: Have to start better with my friends, better with my colleagues,

477
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:39,360
Speaker 4: better with my partner at home, because all that can

478
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,880
Speaker 4: be gone in an instant, and when it's does, then

479
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,280
Speaker 4: you're trying to figure out why you're doing all this right.

480
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 4: And I'll being funny story I went through. Not a

481
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 4: funny story. But I still have a step son and

482
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 4: I'm not with his mother anymore, but he's still mine.

483
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 4: I treat him like he's mine, checking him every day,

484
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,880
Speaker 4: see him three times a week, even when it's hard

485
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 4: because he needs to know that I'm in his corner.

486
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 2: Right.

487
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 4: We got to start treating people better, man, because that's why,

488
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:07,360
Speaker 4: that's that's why we're here.

489
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,439
Speaker 2: We get so caught up in the trivial shit like

490
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 2: the internet trolls.

491
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 4: I mean, I see some of my colleagues go back

492
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 4: and forth, back and forth, back.

493
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,399
Speaker 2: And it's that's all the trolls want. It's just that

494
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,640
Speaker 2: they just want interaction. They just want the interaction. Man.

495
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 4: Don't give that ship to them. Read what they say

496
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 4: about you, think about who it's coming from, and keep scrolling.

497
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,679
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. It doesn't pay your bills. It doesn't

498
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 4: mean that that so and so is going to book you.

499
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:34,560
Speaker 4: So and so is not going to book you because.

500
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 2: Some internet troll.

501
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 4: And if anything, it will absolutely destroy your reputation if

502
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 4: you get into the wrong kind of battle with someone

503
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 4: and you say the wrong things, and once you've typed

504
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 4: them out, man, you can't untype them now. So you

505
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,919
Speaker 4: have to be real careful man. And that's why I

506
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 4: just I just scroll past that shit. Say all you want.

507
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,200
Speaker 4: I don't care. It doesn't matter.

508
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:57,439
Speaker 3: Jack to Dane is spitting truth right now on the show.

509
00:24:58,040 --> 00:24:59,679
Speaker 3: Something I want to know though, because we're gonna we're

510
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 3: still on the NWA topic. Would you like to challenge

511
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 3: Nick Aldis for the title if the opportunity presented itself.

512
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 2: Oh?

513
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,679
Speaker 4: Man, that's a great question, but I think the I

514
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 4: think the better way to word that is, would Nick

515
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 4: Aldas have the guts to challenge me? He's carrying my title.

516
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 4: I never really lost it. Rob Conley hit me with

517
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 4: the belt, Tim Storm fell on top of me. I mean,

518
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 4: you tell me, does all this want to step in

519
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 4: the ring with this?

520
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:27,399
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm looking at you right now.

521
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,440
Speaker 4: I don't bounce his ass straight out of the ring

522
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,719
Speaker 4: man and hold the title up high. I mean, it

523
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 4: is what it is is. I don't even really like

524
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,120
Speaker 4: to get on that subject because all just knows where

525
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 4: I'm at. My phone can ring my phone A ring

526
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 4: it rang. They wanted me to wrestle him in China,

527
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 4: and I just have my shoulder rebelt. That's when my

528
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 4: phone rang is when I was supposed to They wanted

529
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:48,640
Speaker 4: me to wrestle in Wow.

530
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,439
Speaker 3: So so we're gonna throw this out here right on

531
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,479
Speaker 3: the show. Hey, nick Aldis, if you're listening, Oh he's listening.

532
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 3: You know where to reach Jackson's listening.

533
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 4: I have a ton of respect for Nick. He's the

534
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 4: if there's ever been a perfect NWA World tampion. Man,

535
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 4: I think right now for where the NWA is, it's him.

536
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 4: But I promise you, promise you, he does not want

537
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 4: in there with me.

538
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 2: Man. I just it's just one of those things.

539
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 3: We're gonna We're gonna put this out in the universe.

540
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 3: We want to see this match on Power on Tuesday nights.

541
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 2: I mean, if only you can see Jackson's face right

542
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 2: now as we're trying.

543
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 4: To discuss this my fault. I mean, I'm not one

544
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 4: to back down from anything. My focus is to get

545
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 4: Crimson healthy and win those n WA world titles.

546
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 2: That's world tag titles. But along the way, if if.

547
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 4: Powers to be want us to lock horns, I got

548
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 4: some gear that don't say workings. I can step in

549
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,919
Speaker 4: there as a singles. I mean, I don't have to

550
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 4: wear the spikes. I can put the hat on and

551
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 4: the sleeveless T shirt and go back to the country

552
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 4: boy that does only knows how to what people's ass

553
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 4: I promise you he doesn't want in there with that.

554
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 3: This This is this is gold right now, and it's

555
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,679
Speaker 3: if we want this to happen. And that's now I

556
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 3: kind of want to ask you, is what is your

557
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 3: thoughts on the resurgence of nw A and of course

558
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,120
Speaker 3: the TV power oh man, and just hearing you talk

559
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,959
Speaker 3: about you and possibly wanted to go at Nick Aldis

560
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 3: and getting Crimson healthy to go after those tag team titles.

561
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:17,919
Speaker 2: Already know what you go say about this?

562
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, man, I mean it's a no brainer for

563
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 4: me to support anything that the nw A is doing

564
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,919
Speaker 4: as a member of that fraternity, fraternity that I spoke

565
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 4: about earlier. Man, You just you want to see companies

566
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 4: that you were a part of succeed. And I think

567
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 4: that these guys have captured what they say the freight

568
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 4: lightning in a bottle. I mean, they're doing a great

569
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 4: thing right now with a great setup and what they're

570
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 4: really doing that I enjoy where I think I would

571
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 4: succeed and Crimson and I will succeed there if we'll

572
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 4: get the opportunity. Is they're letting fans see their characters.

573
00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:00,400
Speaker 4: They're they're wrestlers, They're letting fans see They're letting guys talk,

574
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 4: They're letting guys interact with each other. You don't get

575
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 4: a lot of that anywhere else, and it's very understandable.

576
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 4: It's very simplified, and I don't mean that in a

577
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 4: bad way. They stick a microphone in front of two

578
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 4: guys and let them talk.

579
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 2: To each other.

580
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 4: A lot can be done with that, and that's what

581
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 4: they've gone back to doing. That's what I grew up loving,

582
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 4: watching what we call a studio show, and then in

583
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 4: the studio show.

584
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 2: They give you just enough to make you want to go.

585
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 4: Watch it down the street Bruce in Town that week.

586
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 4: Right now, NWA is doing just a little bit different

587
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 4: than that, but that whole format, the way they've got

588
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 4: I'm a huge fan of what they're doing, And where

589
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 4: it really makes me happy is for some of the

590
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 4: guys like myself or Conway or Kajima and Tinsen that

591
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 4: we're in that era of champions on ownership and then

592
00:28:55,400 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 4: you've got the Adam Pearce and Colt and brent Albright

593
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 4: and then when you go back further than that, then

594
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 4: you're getting into the TNA stuff. But so for those

595
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 4: two eras of champions let's let's call it the Pierce

596
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 4: era in the Conway era, and I'll fall into the

597
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 4: Conway Air right right, you when you com for those

598
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 4: two eras to have kept the NWA fairly relevant, right,

599
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 4: not like it is now and not like it was,

600
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 4: but we kept it.

601
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 2: Relevant with what we had to work with. Right.

602
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 4: By doing that and now seeing it research, it gives

603
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 4: for me and I'm assuming the other guys I don't

604
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 4: want to speak for, but it gives me great pride

605
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 4: to see how well that it's doing and feel like

606
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,959
Speaker 4: that I facilitated part of that by four hundred and

607
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 4: twenty days of carrying that thing everywhere I went. It

608
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 4: was just a great honor. And now what you're going

609
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 4: to see end up happening, man, is as NWA continues

610
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 4: to grow, I mean, and people start researching the history,

611
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 4: guys like myself, brent Albright. I don't really put Colt

612
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 4: and Adam in this category because they've done extremely well,

613
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 4: but Kajima tends in the American fan base may not

614
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 4: know real well. As they start researching the history. Now

615
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 4: guys like us will fall into that research. So that's great.

616
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 2: But for me and.

617
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 4: I love the idea that it's succeeding so well for

618
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 4: Adam Pierce because the two guys that I've really.

619
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 2: Not modeled my career after. That's because we're so different.

620
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 4: But the way Adam Pierce carries himself as a human

621
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 4: being as an inspiration and almost a role model for

622
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 4: me because I see every day he gets up, he

623
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 4: works hard, he loves his family, he doesn't mess with

624
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 4: all the internet trolls.

625
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 2: He puts his head down.

626
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 4: And the bad thing about it is the world never

627
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 4: really got to see how capable and amazing of a

628
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 4: wrestler he is, right right, because it just wasn't visible

629
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 4: during his era of NWA Champion, World Champ and then

630
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 4: the era after that, obviously it wasn't very visible either.

631
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 4: So as those guys start researching that, then I mean,

632
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,959
Speaker 4: so I want the NWA. I mean I want him

633
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 4: to rocket ship to the to the front of the pack,

634
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 4: because that's the company that I've had the most history

635
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 4: with and want to see succeed.

636
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 3: Right, And it's we're in my co host Eli, we're

637
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 3: huge fans of Tuesday Night Power, Like, well.

638
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 2: We're going back and forth. Hey do you watch it?

639
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 3: I was like, I try to get home right as

640
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 3: soon as it starts. But the good thing about it

641
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 3: is is it's available on YouTube. You could watch it whenever,

642
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 3: you don't have to, like to have a DVR and

643
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 3: sit down, you can kind of pause it, come back

644
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 3: to it. And that's the one thing I love about that.

645
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 3: And of course the studio wrestling aspect brings you back

646
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 3: to your childhood.

647
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 4: And I think Dave legana who's very involved in mister Corgan,

648
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 4: I think they understand. They're forward thinking enough that they

649
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 4: understand that not the days of TV wrestling are over

650
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 4: because obviously ANX, I mean there's.

651
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 2: A shown every night right right, pretty much.

652
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 4: But there's always now the way that technology is, the

653
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 4: way society is going is as long as you've got

654
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 4: your phone, you you can watch r n W A

655
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,239
Speaker 4: power right, you can watch it. So I think they

656
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 4: they've really done a good job of seeing where I

657
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 4: mean you, I'm kind of shooting from the hip here,

658
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 4: but I could see in ten years that there not

659
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 4: be network television wrestling. It's it's all you. You choose

660
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 4: and click which company you want to buy from, right,

661
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 4: just just like they do Hulu Epics, I mean all

662
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 4: the Netflix alone pay for a subscription because I mean

663
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 4: even because what's happening is even my father, who's you know,

664
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 4: a seven year old country guy. It's pretty savvy. He

665
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 4: just canceled his cable, totally got internet. Well he's had internet,

666
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 4: he kept his Internet, and now everything that he wants

667
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 4: to watch he just points and clicks.

668
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,479
Speaker 2: Right, there's no more scrolling channels for him and tell

669
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 2: you what I want to watch. Boom there it is.

670
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I think and in the next ten years

671
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 4: I could see the shift into completely that.

672
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's what it seems to be doing.

673
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 3: It's like everybody's cutting cable and just getting Internet and

674
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 3: streaming stuff. But you know, before we started recording, we

675
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 3: kind of talked about Impact and I wanted to kind

676
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 3: of jump into this if you want to talk about it.

677
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 3: So you were involved with Impact back in twenty seventeen,

678
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 3: give or take. That was right around the time that

679
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 3: they were kind of having a major turnaround and you

680
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 3: had kind of a short run. What would you work

681
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 3: with them again if the door was open? What kind

682
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 3: of happened with that show?

683
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 4: Absolutely it, Crimson our own fantastic terms of Impact, I mean,

684
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 4: and management there. Scott de Moore does a great job.

685
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 4: And I don't know, they had a hell of a

686
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:07,239
Speaker 4: showing last night.

687
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 2: I don't know. If you watched it yet or not.

688
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 3: But the fact Sammy Callahan went in spoiler alert if

689
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 3: anybody hasn't watched it yet, I.

690
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 2: Mean, I'm telling you, man, they had home run last night.

691
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 2: For me.

692
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 4: I mean, maybe not for all the fans. Some internet

693
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 4: trolls gonna say they shit the bed.

694
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 2: Who cares everybody for awesome behind the keyboard.

695
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:27,840
Speaker 4: What I watched, man, last night. I was real happy

696
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 4: for those guys. I like seeing them succeed. It's obviously

697
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 4: another place that Crimson and I could end up at

698
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,359
Speaker 4: any time. We've wrestled for him since we've not been

699
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 4: under contract with them, We've wrestled for him eight or

700
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 4: ten times, just depending on where they're at geographically.

701
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 2: So I mean that door is open.

702
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 4: I'm sure there's no bad intentions or ill wills there.

703
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 4: I mean, we've we've worked pretty well with those guys,

704
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 4: and I'm glad to see them them doing well. And

705
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 4: now even with Ohio Valley Wrestling is back to being

706
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 4: their feeder system basically, and and Anthony or Crimson and

707
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,760
Speaker 4: I are up there quite a bit with Al.

708
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 2: So, I mean it could be a natural fit at

709
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 2: the right time.

710
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 3: Right we had Al on the show about a couple

711
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 3: of weeks ago, and we talked about how he's doing

712
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 3: at Ohio where he's making it like a trade school

713
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 3: where there's this that you can learn, there's this that

714
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 3: you can learn, and he was at the time he

715
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 3: was going through I guess all the paperwork to get accredited,

716
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 3: and they certainly.

717
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 4: They're really close to wrapping all that up man, And

718
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 4: you're right, you can learn to be a commentator, a cameraman,

719
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 4: a manager. I've seen some of the curriculum because I'm

720
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 4: up there so often. They're teaching the language of wrestling,

721
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 4: they're teaching the history of wrestling. I mean, it's really

722
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 4: a neat setup on what he's got going on up there,

723
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 4: and then what he's really where once he turns the

724
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 4: corner with his group of guys, where he's really doing

725
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 4: something different than what any of the other I want

726
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 4: to say, feeder schools or training schools or wrestling mid

727
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 4: level wrestling companies are doing. Is he's teaching these these

728
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:07,959
Speaker 4: kids me included to work live TV.

729
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 2: Russell Live TV.

730
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 4: I mean, we're live on Tuesday nights now and it's

731
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 4: it's it's not live to tape, it's live. You you

732
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 4: got to hit your time marks. Every there's no retakes,

733
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 4: there's no edits. What you go out there and put

734
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 4: out there is what people are going to see. So

735
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 4: he's trying, and he's not trying. He's doing his best

736
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 4: to prepare these guys for live TV. It's really, man,

737
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:34,240
Speaker 4: he's really making some major progress. I couldn't be more

738
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,839
Speaker 4: over the moon to be a part of Al's team.

739
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 4: He helps me every day. He makes me a better wrestler,

740
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:44,280
Speaker 4: he makes me a better person. I really am glad

741
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 4: that that Crimson and I make that trip up and

742
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 4: work with him.

743
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 2: Man, It's it's such an honor to have you in

744
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 2: the studio.

745
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna keep saying that in my mic fanger

746
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 3: a little bit having you in the studio. But I

747
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 3: do want to talk about this something that is like

748
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,399
Speaker 3: blowing up all of a sudden in this region. Tried

749
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 3: and True is like literally taking over everything like NonStop,

750
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 3: Like every event has been phenomenal. So how did I

751
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 3: guess you get involved with Tried and True? And what

752
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 3: does it mean to you to see it grow into

753
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 3: probably one of the best regional promotions in this region

754
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 3: in the US.

755
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 4: It's just the attention to detail and the passion that

756
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 4: Anthony Mayweather runs that company with. That's the that's the

757
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 4: key to it all is he makes everybody on his

758
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 4: team believe in the product. A great leader, he's a

759
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 4: great friend. And that's why Tried and True is successful

760
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 4: because he is on it's his job. It's what he

761
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 4: does every day is Tried and True, and that's why

762
00:37:55,280 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 4: it's successful. Couldn't ask for a better partner, couldn't ask

763
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 4: for a better friend. And I'm glad that I'm part

764
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 4: of what Tried and True is doing.

765
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:09,399
Speaker 3: I mean, it's every show we've been to NonStop is

766
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 3: like probably the best product we've seen well.

767
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 4: And I mean from everything from starting to finish, from

768
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 4: from your travel, the talent's travel, to the talent's meals,

769
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 4: to the hotels, to the production to I mean just

770
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 4: all of it. And then the wrestling is the cherry

771
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 4: on top of the ice cream, right, I mean, we

772
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 4: get to go out. And what's so great about Tried

773
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 4: and True, man is is the community. Clerkesvill is a

774
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 4: It's the smallest, it's the biggest small town I think

775
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:48,879
Speaker 4: in America. Maybe for sure.

776
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,720
Speaker 2: It was named the best place to live in America.

777
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 4: Maybe a couple, their economies boom and everything's great up there.

778
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 4: Right now they're battling some storms that just put several

779
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 4: thousand people out of power. But but regardless, man, he

780
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 4: does such a great job of interacting and intertwining with

781
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 4: that community that that he's built a brand there with

782
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 4: his team, and his team believes in him, and his school,

783
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 4: his students believe in him. He's got great he's got

784
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 4: great people around him. And they say the one of the

785
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,240
Speaker 4: things about a great leader or people that are successful,

786
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 4: they surround themselves with good people. And he's done that, man.

787
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 4: I mean, he's got some. He's got a local attorney

788
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 4: in town there, Eric Lahman, that's really fundamental in some

789
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 4: of his successes. I mean, you can just go down

790
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 4: the list of all of the community stuff that he does.

791
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 2: And a part of he's you know, he's.

792
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 4: The NWR, the military wellness program at the army base there.

793
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 4: He's involved with that. We've ran in it. We ran

794
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 4: an event there last year with Impact. We're gonna do

795
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 4: that again. I'm not sure it will be with Impact.

796
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 4: It very well could be. I just don't know the

797
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 4: details on that yet, but we're going to have an

798
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 4: event there again and as soon as as soon as

799
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 4: we lock down a new venue, I think we'll be

800
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:19,760
Speaker 4: back to Yeah. I mean we're still doing the showcase,

801
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 4: the student showcase at the Single Event Center.

802
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 3: And that's that was kind of the next thing we're

803
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,880
Speaker 3: going to lead into. So so this works out perfectly,

804
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 3: like we're on the same page right now.

805
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:32,240
Speaker 4: It's a good place to be now. So the show

806
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 4: or the event for his student it's coming up and

807
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 4: it's at the Single Event Center. And what that is

808
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 4: is six or eight times a year we run an

809
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 4: event where the kids from his academy can go out

810
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 4: and show how much progress they've made. And I'm telling

811
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 4: you it's what's great about that event is is that

812
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 4: the the caliber of wrestling that you get at that event.

813
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 4: I would put it up against any any other local promotion.

814
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 4: I mean it's just a production, the talent, the way

815
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 4: the kids work their ass off on that event, and

816
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 4: then you have guys intertwined there myself, Crimson Bram, Jeremiah Plunkett,

817
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,320
Speaker 4: and like I said, that next event is Friday, November

818
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,320
Speaker 4: twenty second at the Single Event Center. So I think,

819
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 4: you know, it's a great place to dip your toe

820
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 4: into tried and true if you've never been to a

821
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:28,320
Speaker 4: tried and true event.

822
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 2: And trust me, you want to be at a tried

823
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 2: and true event.

824
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,240
Speaker 3: I mean, we've been to the ones in Clarks, we were

825
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,320
Speaker 3: to the ones in Gallatin, and I mean the fact

826
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 3: that I live in Gallaton and I drive you know,

827
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 3: the over an hour two the Clarks will show We'll

828
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 3: show you that it is worth the drive and walking

829
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 3: them all to get into the event center because you

830
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 3: get there late for parking.

831
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's for sure. I mean, and you know

832
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 2: it's funny. A lot of independent promotions.

833
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 4: You'll go somewhere and wrestle, and they'll put out on

834
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 4: social media, oh sold out, sold to some bitch out

835
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 4: some other people, and I'm thinking.

836
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 2: Man, I just wrestled there. I'm not sure there.

837
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 4: Was four hundred people, But all right, it is what

838
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 4: it is. I don't blame you, whatever you need to do.

839
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 4: But when they tell you that there were twelve hundred

840
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 4: people and the Wilma Rudolph and you see the pictures,

841
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 4: you know there were twelve hundred people here.

842
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 3: Right, It's like when you saw we saw the videos

843
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 3: and we were sitting there watching it at saved tonight

844
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 3: when when Steve and Brand went outside and that arena

845
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 3: just went nuts and everybody poled out, and I was like,

846
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna sit in my seat and I'm just

847
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 3: gonna let everybody run and then we'll watch it. You

848
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:33,280
Speaker 3: know what happened outside on social media?

849
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 2: But right, yeah, I mean it's a packed house there,

850
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:42,240
Speaker 2: it's not it's an event. Yeah, there's there's two theories

851
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 2: of thought.

852
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 4: On that in my mind is sometimes you go wrestle

853
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 4: on the on the show, right, and then sometimes you're

854
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 4: lucky enough to go wrestling an event. And the tried

855
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 4: and true, the production, the big what do we the

856
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 4: Titan Trons even though it's not a Titan Trons, it's

857
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 4: two big screens that look.

858
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 2: Like Titan Trons on the wall.

859
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 4: Just the level of production and entertainment and wrestling and

860
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 4: the environment and the fans are always super engaged in

861
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:08,840
Speaker 4: the cities and behind it.

862
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 2: It's my favorite place. It's literally my favorite place to wrestle.

863
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 3: It's and it's like I said, it's an amazing from

864
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 3: start to finish, from the experience of meeting the wrestlers

865
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 3: to watching the show, and then the fact that you.

866
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 2: Could bring your kids and you don't have to worry.

867
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 3: About, you know, certain things happening and you're like, my

868
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 3: kids shouldn't see that kind of thing, right right.

869
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 2: It's a great family oriented, very family friendly.

870
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 4: We try to make sure there's minimal to no foul anguish,

871
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 4: nothing overtly sexual.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, that's just just what we need

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Speaker 2: right now most definitely. So where can people keep up

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Speaker 2: with you online? Oh? Man?

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Speaker 4: I've got two Instagram pages, Jack's Underscore Dane and then

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Speaker 4: Jack's Underscore Dane Underscore Info Twitter is at the Jacks

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Speaker 4: Dane and then that's the two places to really chase

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Speaker 4: me down at. And then my email address Jacks Dane

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Speaker 4: Info gmail dot com.

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Speaker 2: And if somebody wants to get some merch, I've actually

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Speaker 2: is stay tuned.

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Speaker 4: I worked out a deal with Coler and Elbow last

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Speaker 4: night nice that they're going to be producing all of

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Speaker 4: my stuff.

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Speaker 2: Now. I've got three shirts. I've got the Godzilla Jacks

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Speaker 2: Dane shirt.

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Speaker 4: I've got the Country af shirt that's about to drop.

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Speaker 2: And that's my favorite one.

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Speaker 4: And then I've got the new Love Butter Lift Kinder,

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Speaker 4: Work Harder Team Jack shirt will drop.

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Speaker 2: We'll probably have that up and.

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Speaker 4: Running next week and you'll just be able to order

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Speaker 4: direct from Colin elbow Off.

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Speaker 2: My there it is Jack's Dane dropping knowledge on us today.

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Speaker 3: Don't have to go to church on Sunday now, Man,

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Speaker 3: It's such an honor to have you in the studio

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Speaker 3: with us.

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Speaker 2: Man, I appreciate it. Thanks for coming.

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Speaker 5: We hope you enjoyed this week's episode of Battleground. Make

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Speaker 5: sure you give it five stars and leave a nice review.

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Speaker 1: That