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Speaker 1: Welcome to the battle Ground Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Dat you play for all the wrestling.

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Speaker 1: And exclusive interviews with some of your favorite wrestlers.

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Speaker 3: Wound stop it, What's up you guys? Welcome back into

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Speaker 3: iHeartRadio's official wrestling podcast, the Battleground Podcast. In his battle

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Speaker 3: it is Eli and TNA Wrestling is making it's long.

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Speaker 4: A way to return Saint Joseph, Missouri for the first

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Speaker 4: time and well more fingers than I can have on

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Speaker 4: my hands twelve years, that's right, two nights March twenty eighth,

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Speaker 4: twenty ninth, the Saint Joseph Civic Arena is going to

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Speaker 4: be rocking with high energy Actu Pack Pro Wrestling, including

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Speaker 4: the first ever televised TNA event from Saint Joe. And

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Speaker 4: Today on the show, we've got two legends, two risk takers,

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Speaker 4: two of the most iconic.

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Speaker 3: Highers in wrestling history. We got Matt, we got Jeff.

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Speaker 3: You know them as the Hardy Boys. Welcome to the show, guys,

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Speaker 3: How are.

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Speaker 1: You very good? How are you guys?

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Speaker 3: Man?

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Speaker 1: You guys doing all right?

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Speaker 4: We are very excited.

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Speaker 3: I know we've had you guys here on the show

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Speaker 3: quite a few times here recently and great to always

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Speaker 3: have you guys, back on, and I want to jump

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Speaker 3: right into this one because everybody's been talking about it.

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Speaker 3: Your recent title defense against the NXT Tag Team champions

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Speaker 3: Phraxium at ww's Roadblock event was a significant moment. How

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Speaker 3: did it feel to take those TNA championships and showcase

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Speaker 3: them on such a prominent WW platform for the world

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Speaker 3: to see?

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Speaker 1: It was great.

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Speaker 5: The whole NXC experience for us was just just amazing

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Speaker 5: all the way around. And we went in there with

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Speaker 5: a lot of pride, we attle of confidence, and we

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Speaker 5: put our titles on the line.

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Speaker 1: You know, they were very lucky their.

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Speaker 5: NXT titles were on the line because they were We

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Speaker 5: beat double champs NXT and TNA champs. Right now, but

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Speaker 5: I'm thinking, because we did defeat them, maybe that puts

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Speaker 5: us line for an XC title shot.

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Speaker 2: You think, I think that, And maybe your name mayle

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Speaker 2: to some of that, you know, But yeah, piggybacking off that,

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Speaker 2: are you guys envious at all of the performance center?

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Speaker 2: Like you guys didn't have anything like that when you

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Speaker 2: were coming up. Are you a little envious, like, geez,

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Speaker 2: this would have been a game changer.

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Speaker 6: No, not really, I'm.

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Speaker 1: Not envious at all.

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Speaker 6: That was the first time Matt had ever been there,

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Speaker 6: which kind of blew my mind because back during the

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Speaker 6: pandemic we were there all the time in the very

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Speaker 6: early stages of it when the world shut down. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: it was over all, the few weeks we did NXT

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Speaker 6: was super special.

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Speaker 2: That's killing man. Well, Matt, you mentioned that you and

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Speaker 2: Jeff feel new and fresh during this TNA run. Can

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Speaker 2: you elaborate on what's contributing to this maybe renewed energy

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Speaker 2: and how Teenager Sergeant has impact your performances.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think our relationship with TNA has been

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Speaker 5: a mutual admiration society in many ways. I think TNA

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Speaker 5: was starting to going to resurgence and we were able

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Speaker 5: Hardy's being there also helps strengthen their resurgence in many

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Speaker 5: ways because we're kind of in a resurgence of our own,

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Speaker 5: like we've been put in a position. The thing I

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Speaker 5: also give a n XT credit as well. The chef

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Speaker 5: Shawn Michaels, he was cooking, But at TNA, they have

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Speaker 5: put us in a position to succeed and considering We're

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Speaker 5: like a legacy act if you utilize us in the

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Speaker 5: right way. Uh, it's really easy to do and TNA

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Speaker 5: has done it perfect to a tie thus far.

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Speaker 2: And last time we talked to you, you guys mentioned I mean,

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Speaker 2: you guys are continually to innovate. I mean you're not

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Speaker 2: resting order Laurels. You're developing new things. That's that's a

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 1: You guys like the plot to us, that's our new Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you were telling us about that last time. You're like,

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Speaker 3: we've got this new move trying out. We're not gonna

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Speaker 3: And then I was like, I texted Eli, was like,

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Speaker 4: They wouldn't give us any more details.

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Speaker 3: He just said watch DNA, but man, fantastic stuff. And

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Speaker 3: you know, you think about the Hardys. You obviously think

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Speaker 3: mean for both teams at this stage in your careers?

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Speaker 1: Please? I think we're ready. Are you ready? Yeah? Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're one hundred percent ready. We're up every morning.

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Speaker 5: We're doing our ice bats, our cold plunges, we're busting

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Speaker 5: our ass, we're working out, we're trying to stay in

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Speaker 5: tiptop shape to be middle aged men.

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Speaker 1: We are ready. We would love to face the middle

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Speaker 5: So as long as Bully and Devon they're ready to

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Speaker 5: rock and roll, we are ready. At the drop of

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Speaker 4: Are we gonna put the TNA titles up for that?

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Speaker 1: On that match, we'll put the TNA titles up. Hell,

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Speaker 1: maybe we'll be the NXT champions over the NT titles up?

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Speaker 1: Who knows?

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Speaker 5: Why don't they bring their old school ECBUT titles. I'm

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Speaker 5: sure they get some replicas put those online too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think their claim is they're the most decorated tag team.

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Speaker 1: That is their claim.

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Speaker 2: Because I haven't I haven't investigated that claim.

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Speaker 5: I don't know. They have had a lot of title rues,

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Speaker 5: especially in ec W. That's where they got that, that's

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Speaker 5: where they got the jump on us. But but I

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Speaker 5: do have to say this. They can't claim they're the

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Speaker 5: most popular tag team of all time. I think we

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Speaker 5: the most influential tag team of all time. But we

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Speaker 5: are working and I think when it's all said and done,

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Speaker 5: we are going to be the most decorated tag team

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Speaker 2: Yeah said, yeah, well, and you mentioned, you know, the

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Speaker 2: the tag team, of course, but then you guys definitely

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Speaker 2: you know, reflecting on, you know, some of the things

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Speaker 2: Do you do you offer advice to people if they

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Speaker 2: ask you about things like that, or do you kind

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Speaker 2: of keep it a little private.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm kind of a private guy.

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Speaker 6: My biggest thing is I'll just say if somebody asked

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Speaker 5: Just keep doing what you're doing. Everything looked great.

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Speaker 6: But yeah, just coming out on the other side of

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Speaker 6: all my dark stuff. Man, it's just so I'm so

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Speaker 6: grateful each and every day to have this opportunity, you know,

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Speaker 6: to succeed again and to end my career on an

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Speaker 1: So it's just it's super excited.

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Speaker 6: This last run is going to be like one of

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Speaker 6: the best runs of the Hearty's that we've ever had.

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Speaker 6: And and yeah, there's even a twist to the plot

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Speaker 1: Probably coming soon.

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Speaker 6: So I mean there's all kind of innovation always steady

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Speaker 2: Well, I can speak as a fan. We were happy.

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Speaker 2: You're just healthy and happy. You know, the wrestling part

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Speaker 2: you're stahar with us. So I'm going to be at

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Speaker 2: Vegas for the Mania Week and I was thinking of

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Speaker 2: back to Mania Week.

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Speaker 1: A few years ago.

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Speaker 2: You guys, let's say, fought the Bucks on a Saturday,

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Speaker 2: for you guys during media week? I mean, can you

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Speaker 1: Or anything happened in the Extreme Life of the Hearties.

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Speaker 5: And also, one thing you're missing out on that Friday night,

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Speaker 5: we may have vented the Russell Con show against Penton

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Speaker 5: Sunday we obviously showed up at Wrestling thirty three in

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Speaker 2: Match one of y'all's opponents here.

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Speaker 1: How there we go? Okay, cool? Look at that Brisco Boys. Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Man, And kind of going back to what Eli said,

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Speaker 3: I mean, just when you think think of the Hardy Boys,

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Speaker 3: it is. It's a name that everybody goes to. Matt

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Speaker 3: and Jeff and I am thirty six years old. My

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Speaker 3: I'm interviewing the Hardy Boys, and he started freaking out.

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Speaker 3: And he's eight, so he knows everything. He's like, make

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Speaker 3: sure you show Jeff my action figure that I have.

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Speaker 3: We also had a Matt, but our dog got it

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Speaker 3: in an extreme rules match, So sorry, Matt. But it's

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Speaker 3: just so great to see the fact that like not

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Speaker 3: getting into another generational of fans that get to watch

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Speaker 3: and also just goes to show your longebty because like

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Speaker 3: you said, you're taking care of yourself the ice bas

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Speaker 3: I mean, I sit here and watch you guys on

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Speaker 3: social media.

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Speaker 4: You posted the videos.

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Speaker 3: I see Jeff outside doing his artwork and he's singing

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Speaker 3: every day. I see you know, you know, Matt trying

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Speaker 3: to keep up with everything with his wife or tiktoking.

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Speaker 3: Like you're staying in the eye of everybody and you're

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Speaker 3: staying relevant. Where you see some tag teams of the

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Speaker 3: past where they're just kind of like, we're just gonna

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Speaker 3: do this.

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Speaker 1: We you know, we we do.

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Speaker 5: We both live very fulfilling lives. You know, we both

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Speaker 5: have kids mineor are a little younger than Jeff's. They keep

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Speaker 5: us busy and we have a very a very solid

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Speaker 5: and fair exchange I think between professional life and for

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Speaker 5: they really work well together. They jee together, although the

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Speaker 5: last three weeks have been super slammed as we were

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Speaker 5: doing NXC and TENA at the same time. But with

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Speaker 5: that being said, we're always excited to get out to

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Speaker 5: to Saint Joseph's and it's the first time you said,

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Speaker 5: TEENA has been here in twelve years. We're really excited

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Speaker 5: about this event. It's so cool because every event we've

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Speaker 1: You are gonna love him. TNA.

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Speaker 5: It is white hot right now. It is on a roll.

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Speaker 6: And yet our meet and greets these days, we've been

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Speaker 5: But the love and.

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