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Speaker 1: This is Aw's Qt Marshall, the leader of the number

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Speaker 1: one faction, the Factory, and you are watching the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Why from the Parts Unknown Studios to the Duble, Battle Crown,

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Speaker 1: Battle Bun, the Battle Round, Battle the Battle Crowd. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Battleground Podcast, your place for all things pro Wrestlady,

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Speaker 1: the Battle.

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Speaker 2: The Battle Round.

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Speaker 1: Now making their way to the microphones, give it up

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Speaker 1: for your hosts.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Battle Crown.

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Speaker 2: What's up you guys.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to another episode of the Battleground Podcast. And

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of great things happening over the next

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Speaker 3: several weeks that involve aew. So I'm gonna go ahead

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Speaker 3: and bring in my tag team partner. Let's bring him in.

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Speaker 3: There's Eli with the are you marking today right now?

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Speaker 4: A little bit? You got me thinking about Tracy Lawrence

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Speaker 4: over there with your shirt.

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Speaker 2: No, this is it Tracy Lawrence?

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Speaker 4: Well I know, but he had well you have the

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Speaker 4: song Texas ton Well, that's true, very true. I'll got

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Speaker 4: out to mister Josh Pruno, who's buddies with him. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: so uh yeah, this is a this is gonna be

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Speaker 4: an interesting chat.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm gonna let Normally I introduce the people,

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Speaker 3: but I'm gonna let you do that.

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Speaker 1: Eli.

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Speaker 2: You want to bring in our special guest today?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? You know him? Well, he used to be really

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Speaker 4: good friends with Cody. They had a fallen out. Uh.

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Speaker 4: He's one of the trainers at the Nightmare Factory and

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Speaker 4: is currently the head of the factory. Uh, mister Qt

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Speaker 4: Marshalls here today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there he is. Or is it Qt Marshall rednext

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Speaker 2: down here?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Qt Marshall.

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Speaker 1: Right, it's Marshall you know. But that's all right. It's

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Speaker 1: your first time, Eli, so I won't let it.

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Speaker 4: Once I said, once I got them out, I was like,

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Speaker 4: it's wrong, that's all.

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Speaker 1: Right, don't worry about it.

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Speaker 3: It's the redneck southerniness. It's like you see it, it's

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Speaker 3: like Qt.

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Speaker 2: Marshall. No, it's Qt.

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Speaker 3: Marshall man with First off, let me just ask this,

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Speaker 3: when are we getting a Qt. Marshall line of shirts?

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Speaker 3: Because I need the shirts that you wear every week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. You know, I thought about doing

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Speaker 1: a T shirt that looked like a bowling shirt. This

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Speaker 1: way it's more affordable for everybody, but I think it

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Speaker 1: would have to be one of those like special orders

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Speaker 1: first and then kind of order them in by size

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Or I could buy a boatload

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Speaker 1: of them, but we'll see. I don't know. I kind

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Speaker 1: of like being different. I don't like people rocking my style.

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Speaker 3: So I mean I would buy a bowling T shirt

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Speaker 3: if a if shop aw dot com would throw some

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Speaker 4: I almost bought the AW bomber jacket, so yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: there you go.

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Speaker 2: Right, let's kind of just jump into this real quick.

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Speaker 3: If there were a sequel to the Wrestler documentary, what

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Speaker 1: A man, it's what a what a difference? Huh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's like dreams can come true if you

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Speaker 1: But well, you know, it's been a crazy ride over

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Speaker 1: the past three years, ever since that movie came out. Again,

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Speaker 1: that movie wasn't designed to help propel my career, but

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, maybe maybe we just let it be.

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Speaker 3: And you know they say sometimes the sequels never live

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Speaker 1: Well, I would take twenty nine million dollars to do

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Speaker 1: a QT Marshall story too. Yeah, I promise you.

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Speaker 4: So we just passed the two year anniversary of AW

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Speaker 1: I think obviously the roster, right, like, we've had many

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Speaker 3: When we went, there was stuff going on during commercial breaks.

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Speaker 3: And I think the thing that we really liked was

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Speaker 1: everyone out there. For our elevation shows are dark or rampant.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's just so much content that we're trying

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Speaker 4: I've really liked the dark banded universal. That kind of

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Speaker 4: I think that's I don't know, I appreciate the doing

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we do both now. So like this Friday,

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Speaker 1: So it's great because, like I said, it gives a

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Speaker 3: And you talk about there's a lot of great product

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Speaker 1: I honestly, I have no idea. I mean, that would

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Speaker 1: And that's what I tell everybody when they say, like,

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Speaker 4: And well and back then too. There'd be times where

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Speaker 4: you do that three times a month, you know, WWE

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Speaker 1: Like right, and so expensive months sometimes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So for the people that are like, like, that's

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Speaker 4: how it's always been, Like, it's always been that we

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Speaker 1: And it's only it's only fifty if you watch it alone.

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Speaker 1: If you get a friend, it's twenty five with it.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like having a piece of cake, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's half the calories if you share it boo.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, So this is kind of a fun question. You

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of one thing that Cody's done

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Speaker 1: that deserves booing from the fans. And you know, at

438
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Speaker 1: the same time, like as long as they're making noise,

439
00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:21,480
Speaker 1: I don't think he really cares one way or the other.

440
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Speaker 3: And it's kind of like, don't this is a weird comparison,

441
00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:28,040
Speaker 3: but it's like all those people that boo Cody are

442
00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:29,680
Speaker 3: the same ones that will come up to him after

443
00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:30,920
Speaker 3: the show asking for a selfie.

444
00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:36,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of like the scene of Roman Reigns, right, yes, which, hey,

445
00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:37,879
Speaker 1: if that's who you're going to compare him to, I

446
00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:39,240
Speaker 1: don't think he's going to care that much.

447
00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,159
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, in any reactions better than the reaction.

448
00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,680
Speaker 4: I mean, if he went out there and the auditorium

449
00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,920
Speaker 4: was just then he's not doing.

450
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Speaker 1: His job, yeah, yeah, or they leave to go get popcorn,

451
00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:50,280
Speaker 1: right Yeah.

452
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Speaker 4: And I mean I think to be fair, and you

453
00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,119
Speaker 4: probably know better than us. I mean, it sounds like

454
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Speaker 4: it's a it's like a fifty to fifty. It's not

455
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Speaker 4: like it's just a crowd of booze. I mean, it's

456
00:19:57,920 --> 00:19:59,760
Speaker 4: he's still got a lot of cheers, and you know,

457
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Speaker 4: I think it's Yeah, I.

458
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Speaker 1: Think who he's in there with too, because when he

459
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Speaker 1: came out in Miami Rampage at the end of the

460
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Speaker 1: show to save pack, I mean that place went nuts.

461
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I mean.

462
00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,480
Speaker 1: And then in Orlando he wrestled Malachi again and then

463
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Speaker 1: it was kind of it was a little split when

464
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Speaker 1: we won, you know, but then after he gave a

465
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Speaker 1: post match speech and everyone loved them. So it's like,

466
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Speaker 1: you know, sometimes the audience just is going to do

467
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Speaker 1: what they're going to do. And like I said, at

468
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, as long as they're making noise,

469
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Speaker 1: I really think that's all that matters. They're having a

470
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Speaker 1: good time and that's what they pay their money for.

471
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Speaker 1: There are about to make those decisions on what they

472
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Speaker 1: who they want to cheer, who they want to move.

473
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Speaker 1: There's times I hit a move and they start cheering

474
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Speaker 1: and I look at them, and that's when I have to,

475
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Speaker 1: you know, do something that's going to make them move exactly,

476
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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I am a wrestler, so I

477
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Speaker 1: have to do wrestling moves. But at the same time,

478
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Speaker 1: I definitely don't want to get cheered over the guy

479
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Speaker 1: that I'm in there with.

480
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Speaker 2: Right for sure.

481
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Speaker 3: And something really good that A a W has been

482
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Speaker 3: done is cultivating homegrown talent, and I feel as if

483
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Speaker 3: that's part actually because of you guys with A Nightmare Factory,

484
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,920
Speaker 3: and you're also kind of bringing in some established names,

485
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Speaker 3: like we talked about Punk, we talked about Brian from

486
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Speaker 3: around the world. Do you feel that companies should still

487
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Speaker 3: go after some of those bigger free agents to help

488
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Speaker 3: establish that brand or do you prefer building those fresh faces.

489
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Speaker 1: I think it all depends. It all depends on if

490
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Speaker 1: they fit, if they like, especially those free agents, what

491
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Speaker 1: they're in it for. Of course, the cliche is that

492
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Speaker 1: they want to help out the younger talent, which I

493
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Speaker 1: agree with at the same time as I've said that myself,

494
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Speaker 1: but of course everyone wants to be world champion too,

495
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Speaker 1: so it's you know, it's a double edged sword. But

496
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Speaker 1: like I said, I think it really depends on the

497
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Speaker 1: mindset of each talent and they you know, sometimes they

498
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Speaker 1: might if they've been in AWWE or Impact or some

499
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Speaker 1: of that, they might have had a writer for the

500
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Speaker 1: past five six years when they come to aw and

501
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:52,800
Speaker 1: they might not have a clue what's going on because

502
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Speaker 1: they're expecting us to write stuff for them. And of

503
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Speaker 1: course Tony does come up with ideas and stuff like that,

504
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Speaker 1: but like Tony's not going to write your promo for you.

505
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:02,080
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, he might give you ideas

506
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Speaker 1: and suggestions on which way, you know, which road he

507
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Speaker 1: wants you to take it down. But at the end

508
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Speaker 1: of the day, like we have so much creative freedom

509
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's a little overwhelming.

510
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's that's kind of what we've noticed here,

511
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 3: is like when you sit there and you see somebody

512
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Speaker 3: get relief from another company, it seems like the first

513
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,639
Speaker 3: thing that everybody says is they're going to be all elite.

514
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:23,800
Speaker 3: And I feel as if that's kind of like a

515
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,119
Speaker 3: good thing for you guys, because that just even draws

516
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,240
Speaker 3: more attention to you because before there was never this

517
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Speaker 3: this I guess competition.

518
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, of course, as soon as

519
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Speaker 1: like you said, as soon as someone gets released, that's

520
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 1: the first thing everybody says. And sometimes that's I'm sure

521
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Speaker 1: some of our locker room thinks, oh, here comes another

522
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Speaker 1: person or something like that. But like I said, it's

523
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Speaker 1: also about what are they going to do for us

524
00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:47,439
Speaker 1: too write Like you know, as much as Tony I'm

525
00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,960
Speaker 1: sure loves paying people to wrestle, you know, they have

526
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,840
Speaker 1: to have a return on their investment as well, you know,

527
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 1: or like maybe they bring something backstage, right like I

528
00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:00,280
Speaker 1: always said, you know, I'm a wrestler in AW, but

529
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:03,000
Speaker 1: I think I make my money backstage and then I'm

530
00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:04,719
Speaker 1: just fortunate enough to be able to go out there

531
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Speaker 1: and wrestle and entertain and live out my dream. But

532
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,400
Speaker 1: I work really hard behind the scenes to make sure

533
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Speaker 1: that that happens. And then there's some people that are

534
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:14,960
Speaker 1: only wrestlers, and unfortunately, if we already have a bunch

535
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 1: of wrestlers that are really good, maybe we don't need them.

536
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,640
Speaker 1: And maybe it's you know, I've had friends reach out

537
00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 1: to me before and say stuff, and I'm just like,

538
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: you know, maybe there's no interest at the moment, but

539
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 1: the whole world is out there, man, like make us

540
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Speaker 1: make AW. If I was a free agent right now,

541
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Speaker 1: I would think, Okay, I'm going to go out of

542
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:37,119
Speaker 1: my way to make AW need me, not begging for

543
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to beg for the job

544
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 1: at AW. I'm going to say, hey, you know what

545
00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,439
Speaker 1: I'm going to do. I have my whole you know,

546
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,720
Speaker 1: creative freedom. I could do whatever I want to do.

547
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:46,640
Speaker 1: I can hit certain indie shows. I can get over

548
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,959
Speaker 1: with that audience, and our audience is that independent audience.

549
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:51,400
Speaker 1: There's just a lot of them.

550
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And I think that's been kind of a

551
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 4: testament to you know, everyone backstage, starting with Tony Dow.

552
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,639
Speaker 4: So you guys aren't just signing every single free agent.

553
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,920
Speaker 4: You're not signing every WW release. And I think over

554
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 4: the last even going back into WCW that you know,

555
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 4: Impact kind of has this perception. But you know, if

556
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 4: they were released from WW, you know they were going

557
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 4: to Impact. And and like you said, I think the

558
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 4: key thing is just like, not every free agent's gonna

559
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 4: fit AW. You know, not every well, you know, I

560
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 4: don't know if the Undertaker.

561
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,360
Speaker 1: Would work in AW. I mean, yeah, you.

562
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 4: Know, I mean there are certain people that just you know,

563
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 4: just because they're free agents, it doesn't mean it's going

564
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,439
Speaker 4: to work with the philosophy and everything with AW. So

565
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Speaker 4: I think you guys have done a really good job

566
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:37,919
Speaker 4: of signing the key players, you know.

567
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean, you know, one of the key

568
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 1: words that we like to throw around is fresh. We

569
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:48,399
Speaker 1: want fresh sometimes, you know, it's it's getting the freshness

570
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 1: out of people that we already have by putting them

571
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 1: with some major stars or something like that. But like

572
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 1: I said, I mean, I've been wrestling seventeen years, but

573
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 1: this is kind of like year one and a half

574
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 1: year two of me actually wrestling. So you know, I'm

575
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 1: considered fresh, believe it or not, as much as people

576
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,199
Speaker 1: might not want to admit it, because there was only

577
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 1: a handful that saw any of my work when I

578
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 1: was in Ring of Honor back in twenty twelve. So

579
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, I think fresh is the

580
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: way to go. I think that's what everybody wants, and

581
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,640
Speaker 1: that's what AAW as a whole was when it first

582
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:17,880
Speaker 1: started for sure.

583
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 4: Well, kind of going back to one of the things

584
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,199
Speaker 4: we talked about earlier, you you wear a lot of

585
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 4: hats and a lot of people in AW do between

586
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 4: being a coach, backstage, all the jobs you have backstage

587
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 4: and in ring performer. What has been the biggest challenge

588
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,919
Speaker 4: since AW became a company? Is it just time? You know,

589
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 4: time management? Has that been the biggest challenger?

590
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say so. I mean there's certain times where,

591
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: like you know, I'm trying to get ready for a

592
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: match and then something happens for Dynamite, and you know,

593
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 1: because I am the person that physically types it, you know,

594
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: like I said, it's not my ideas, but I physically

595
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,679
Speaker 1: am the ones most of the time that's typing it

596
00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 1: unless I have my friend Denise in the truck that

597
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:02,119
Speaker 1: could do it for me. But that goes a long way,

598
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 1: especially if I have a match in twenty minutes when

599
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: most people are getting warmed up and you know, doing

600
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: push ups and stuff, and I'm a computer and you know,

601
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 1: the talent I'm working with is asking me questions and

602
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: I have literally I'm like, hey, I'll just talk to

603
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,439
Speaker 1: you out there, you know, Yeah, you just But again,

604
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 1: I love it. So at the end of the day,

605
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: like there's definitely no complaining about it, and you know

606
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: it's it's time management, but we're we're all learning as

607
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: we go.

608
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you talk about the whole backstage element, Like

609
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,719
Speaker 3: I was recently involved with like a special manager match

610
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:38,360
Speaker 3: with Impact, and I didn't realize how much work went

611
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 3: into it and it was only gonna be like a

612
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 3: five to ten minute match, but there was like a

613
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 3: like a fifteen to twenty minute walkthrough of everything that

614
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 3: we were having to do.

615
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, so that's obviously because you know, you're

616
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 1: not a you know, fully trained wrestler, right exactly. I

617
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 1: always when we do our matches at our facility. If

618
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: you have a five minute match, you have five minutes

619
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Speaker 1: to put it together. If it takes any longer than that,

620
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:01,120
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of it that you should

621
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,879
Speaker 1: be able to just kind of feel it out there

622
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 1: and wing it, you know, and at the end of

623
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: the day, like you could say all you want about

624
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: you have to listen to the audience and you do

625
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,959
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. But think about last year when there

626
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,639
Speaker 1: was no audience. So when we're training at a training

627
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 1: facility and there's no audience, you know, you kind of

628
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,120
Speaker 1: just gotta know where you're going.

629
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 3: Right, And I mean it was a great experience. I

630
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 3: mean it was me versus the national sc mascot were

631
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 3: the special manager, so it was a weird thing, but

632
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 3: it was like it was I mean, we didn't.

633
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:31,880
Speaker 2: Really do much action. It was just kind of like here,

634
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 2: there and everywhere else.

635
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 3: But I mean there's a lot of work that goes on,

636
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 3: and like you said, backstage, I mean you're trying to

637
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,400
Speaker 3: get ready for your match while doing this, this and this.

638
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 3: When I was backstage, you had everybody running through their

639
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 3: matches and you know, doing the push ups.

640
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 1: And the curls and all of stuff. Yeah yeah, I mean.

641
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 2: It was nuts, but something really cool. And I want

642
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 2: to know about this.

643
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 3: You were ranked number one twenty nine on pwi's Top

644
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 3: five hundred list for twenty twenty one.

645
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: About that? I know, are.

646
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 3: Accolades like that important to you or more static than

647
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 3: anything else?

648
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: You know? If I was number one, I think it

649
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: would be really exciting.

650
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 2: I think we'll petition to get that happen.

651
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 1: There you go, I think. You know, obviously we use

652
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 1: a lot of PWI stuff on our show, so who knows.

653
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: I know there's some indie wrestlers that were way ahead

654
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: of me, and I've never understood that list. I can't

655
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: comprehend now, someone that's wrestling, you know, forty times a year,

656
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: thirty times a year in front of two hundred people

657
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 1: can be ranked higher than someone wrestling on national television.

658
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 1: So I don't know. To me, it's not one of

659
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 1: those things that like I'm going to frame like I

660
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: like all the the stuff that I'm involved in, you know,

661
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: like like I said, Blood and Guts or the first

662
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 1: ever bunk house match or mister Brodie Lee's first match,

663
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: like those things you know really mean a lot to me.

664
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: But if it means lots of the fans, or if

665
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: the fans get really upset about me being number one

666
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 1: twenty nine, great, you know you're doing your job. Yeah,

667
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: then I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. So I

668
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: feel like maybe I should have been ranked a little higher,

669
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: But I don't know. It all depends on how many

670
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: people are on national television. If you know, there's one

671
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:05,959
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight that are all on TV, I

672
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: agree with it. There's only forty that are on TV.

673
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: I don't agree with the numbers.

674
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, and if you do it from your standpoint

675
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 4: of this is technically your year two, I mean nine

676
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 4: for year two, that's that's not too shabby.

677
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the only other time I was ranked

678
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: was like in twenty twelve, I was three something, So yeah,

679
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: you know, I.

680
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 4: Mean I don't think Sting was in the top two

681
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 4: hundred in his second year, you know what I mean?

682
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, out there, you know, so it could have

683
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: been number one.

684
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 3: You know.

685
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: Yeah.

686
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 4: Yeah. So concerning the factory, what is on the horizon

687
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 4: for the factory as we wrap twenty twenty one and

688
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 4: head into twenty twenty.

689
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 1: Two, I don't know yet. You know, we were just

690
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: talking the other day about what we could do, and

691
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 1: I think finding a new member would be nice, maybe

692
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: a female who knows, you know, Like I said, I

693
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: like giving those guys the experience. For instance, like when

694
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: this happened in my eye and we did Dark the

695
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: next day, you know, obviously they weren't going to have

696
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: me out there wrestling. So then Aaron Solo got an

697
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: opportunity to wrestle Brian Danielson, and I think that really,

698
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: you know, helped him out, you know, through the eyes

699
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: of some of the people backstage to say, oh, man,

700
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 1: like Aaron's really good. You know, he was able to

701
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: hang in there with Brian Danielson, and of course, you know,

702
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 1: Brian Danielsen hasn't had a bad match and you know forever,

703
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 1: so but I mean, like I said, that, really I

704
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 1: think helped raise Aaron Stock. And like I said, it's

705
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: really hard to get TV time right now. There's just

706
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: so many people and so many stories and obviously building

707
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: up to a pay per view, and that's just something

708
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 1: that you have to kind of understand. We had a

709
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: lot of TV time going into All Out, so the

710
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: fact that we don't have a match at the pay

711
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: per view it's understandable that we're not going to be

712
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: out there all the time. And you know, as long

713
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: as the guys and girls are that aren't a part

714
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: of that pay per view are getting reps elsewhere, you know,

715
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: on the YouTube shows or all of our shoulder content

716
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: or you know, I think it definitely goes a long way.

717
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're just we're waiting to see. I mean,

718
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: you know, we're trying to figure out what's next for us.

719
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: Anthony A. Gogo. He just came back over here, you know,

720
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 1: from England and stuff, so we'll see, you know. I

721
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:03,959
Speaker 1: think maybe we'll get him back out there. I know

722
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: he did really well in his match with Cody and

723
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: the matches leading up to it for somebody that had

724
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: never you know, besides training, never had an actual, you know,

725
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: live wrestling match.

726
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 2: So yeah, and he looked really good out there too.

727
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:17,719
Speaker 1: He's a natural.

728
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Aaron is his killer. I saw him about

729
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 4: three years ago, four years ago, he did the It

730
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 4: was part of Ring of Honor, but it was Dojo

731
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 4: pro sure, and he won it. Yeah. Yeah, but it

732
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 4: was like Joey Janella was on it, James Storm from Impact.

733
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 4: I mean, it was a part of it. Yeah, but

734
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 4: but I mean he stood. I was like, holy crap.

735
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 4: And then you know, fast forward to him getting lined

736
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 4: up with you guys and signing and stuff. Is just like, man,

737
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 4: he's a steal man. He's he's one of those that

738
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 4: don't have a lot of eyes on him yet. But

739
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 4: I mean, as you can see with his match, I

740
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 4: mean with Brian, he can go.

741
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly.

742
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 3: And of course you mentioned the pay per view Full

743
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 3: Gear is happening on November thirteenth. It's going to go

744
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 3: down in many apples and if you would like to

745
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 3: buy tickets, you could still grab those and you can

746
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 3: also watch it on pay per view. All the details

747
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 3: just hit up the website all Elite Wrestling dot com

748
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 3: and real quick QT. I know we've been chatting for

749
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 3: a little bit and it's an honor to have you

750
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 3: on the show. Is there anything you want to tell

751
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 3: everybody before we let you go?

752
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, keep watching aw Like I said, tell

753
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: a friend, if you're in the wrestling industry and you're

754
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: you know, your goal is to come to aw Key,

755
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: working hard, try to check off as many boxes as

756
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: you can, you know, and and keep getting yourself out there.

757
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 1: And like I said, make aw need to hire you,

758
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: not want, but need where there's like I said, an

759
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: actual need. And that's it. You know. For the most part,

760
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: I'm on social media, Twitter, Instagram. I'm not, as you know,

761
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: on there as much as I should be, but you know,

762
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: like I said, time management and also you know how

763
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: may yeah, being married and having a puppy as well.

764
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: So but yeah, that's that's basically it. I'm pretty low key,

765
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: and I will be a lot of seminars. I know,

766
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: I've got booked for a bunch of seminars in the

767
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: next couple of months, and that's where we find a

768
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: lot of our young talent that appear on Dark and

769
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: stuff like that. There's no guarantee that we're gonna pick people,

770
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, like I do

771
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: meet a lot, and there's always one, There's always at

772
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: least one or two out there that I'm like, man,

773
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: this guy or this girl, you know, let's like, let's

774
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: bring her into two Darker, Let's bring her in you know,

775
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: when we're in their city or something like that. So yeah,

776
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I mean, usually I'm scheduled for

777
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: like two hours. I'm usually there about eight or nine

778
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: like it's absurd. I just love to teach, and I

779
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: love to I love to see people that want to

780
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: perform and that have the heart to make it. The

781
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: ones that don't, you know, they're there too. And of

782
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: course we're never going to turn people away either.

783
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 4: So yeah, and that's got to be cool. Now that

784
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 4: the aw has a much larger audience, I'm sure you're

785
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 4: getting These seminars are getting bigger and bigger, and like

786
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 4: you said, the two hours are turning into six to

787
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 4: eight hours.

788
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: And yeah, well the one thing in wrestling, uh, you know,

789
00:33:56,040 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: I've never loved the carne atmosphere, if I could say that.

790
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: So I really try to go above and beyond to

791
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: give everyone their money's worth because at the end of

792
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: the day too, like for me to leave my house

793
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: on a weekend, it's it's expensive, right, like I tell

794
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: the promoter in the schools or whatever it is, So

795
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: we do charge a premium price, but I really go

796
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 1: above and beyond. And you know, at the end, I

797
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: ask everybody, like, if you don't feel that you've learned something,

798
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: or this wasn't worth your time or money, just let

799
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: me know, you know, I'd rather just give you back

800
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: your money than have to, you know, listen to your

801
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: complain about you know, they thought you were going to

802
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: get a job with AAW you know, as soon as

803
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: we started, or something like that.

804
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 3: And I feel as if like if somebody trains with

805
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 3: you guys, or they think that they're going to come

806
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 3: to the Nightmare Factory, it's an automatic shot at getting

807
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 3: at AW right.

808
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, that's one of the things that

809
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 1: I go above and beyond to make sure, like it's

810
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 1: in their paperwork that that's not going to happen. Now.

811
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: Of course, we're not going to give people away to

812
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: the other companies if I feel like they have a

813
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,320
Speaker 1: you know, like a great shot at making us money

814
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 1: and making themselves money. But at the same time, like

815
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: most of them are beginners after twelve weeks, Like for

816
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,399
Speaker 1: you to think that you're gonna just get a job

817
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: with AW it's kind of ignorant. But you know, there

818
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: are the people out there that believe that, and every

819
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: now and then we'll find someone like that, so you

820
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: just never know. I mean, look at the girl Kayla

821
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 1: that was with Joey Janella. She was in like you five, Yeah,

822
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: she was in week five and they started bringing her

823
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 1: to TV. You know, it was like, I'm sure the

824
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: other campers weren't happy about that at the day, week

825
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: five in wrestling, But how about the twelve thirteen years

826
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: she put in in twenty years in the gymnastics and

827
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: you know, being a professional bodybuilder and having her own

828
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: app and you know, having a huge calling. Like people

829
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 1: don't understand that. They just see, oh, she's only been

830
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: wrestling for X amount of weeks. Like, So there's a

831
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: lot that goes into it. Like I said, I mean,

832
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 1: wrestling is the job that we do, but it's a

833
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,359
Speaker 1: small part of the job, and you have to bring

834
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 1: a lot more to the table nowadays because there's just

835
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 1: so many good wrestlers out there, so many great wrestlers

836
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: out there, guys and girls.

837
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 2: And you can't be a one trick pony. So you

838
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 2: gotta have multiple hats. I mean, look at you, I mean.

839
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 3: Backstage this wrestling, I mean, you gotta have multiple hats. Yeah,

840
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:05,240
Speaker 3: can't just come in and be like, I'm a superstar.

841
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:06,879
Speaker 3: I'm gonna wrestle one thing and that's at the end.

842
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you are going to be that person,

843
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 1: you better be selling a bunch of tickets and a

844
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: lot of exactly.

845
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 3: Well, Qt, again, thank you so much for coming on

846
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:17,879
Speaker 3: the show. We look forward to having you back here.

847
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,320
Speaker 3: I know you've done this couple of seminars here in Nashville,

848
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 3: and uh look forward to having you come back to Nashville.

849
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,399
Speaker 2: And hopefully we'll have a w in Nashville soon.

850
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think I'll be there, believe it or not,

851
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: on the eleventh of December. Oh, I should be there

852
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: for Coastal Championship Wrestling. So I was down in Miami

853
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: and now they want to redo another one up there

854
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 1: in Nashville. So I think that's the eleventh is a

855
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 1: Saturday of December, So I'm excited, you know. And then

856
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: I'll be on the show that night, I believe. So

857
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: we'll see if you guys can make it out there.

858
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 1: You know, I'd love to see you.

859
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:49,919
Speaker 3: Yeah.

860
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's enough notice that we may be able to make.

861
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 2: That one basically having kids and whatnot.

862
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 3: So yeah, so that'll be a good one, and uh

863
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 3: looking forward to having you in Nashville. And again, Marshall, Elia,

864
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 3: thank you for being on the show today with us.

865
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 1: Of course, thank you, guys, I appreciate it.

866
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 5: We hope you enjoyed today's episode of the Battleground Podcast.

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