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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to.

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Speaker 2: Battle Round.

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Speaker 3: This is a pro wrestling podcast with a hinte of

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Speaker 3: pop culture. Joint Battle in Eli as they break down

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Speaker 3: the world of professional wrestling and pop culture with special

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Speaker 3: guests including wrestlers and comedians and you never know who's

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Speaker 3: gonna stop us. Now making their way to the microphones,

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Speaker 3: give it up for the greatest podcast tag.

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Speaker 2: Team in the world. Battle and Eli. All right, so

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Speaker 2: welcome to Battleground. You probably already downloaded the podcast, so

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Speaker 2: thank you for downloading. This is a podcast about wrestling,

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Speaker 2: pop culture, and anything else that comes up. We just

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Speaker 2: talked about it. My name is Battle, my name is Eli,

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Speaker 2: and we dropped this podcast every Friday at ten am.

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Speaker 2: But today's a special day because it's two one special.

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Speaker 2: So if you're listening to this right now, Eli is

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Speaker 2: actually out of town right.

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Speaker 4: By the time the sayers, yes, yes, So Eli is

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Speaker 4: out of town, a little peak behind the Curtains, Wizard

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Speaker 4: of Oz on everybody.

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Speaker 2: So earlier this morning we got to sit down and

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Speaker 2: talk with Tom Green. Eli was actually already out of

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Speaker 2: town at the time, so Tom Green awkwardly sat with me. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't I'm sorry. I bailed anybody. I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: one of those things, but it's Tom Green, and things

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Speaker 2: make up for Tom Green. Also, we had Megan who

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Speaker 2: helps us out with our digital stuff are designs and whatnot.

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Speaker 2: She jumped in on the interview and well, if you

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Speaker 2: want awkwardness, enjoy this Tom Green interview that happened earlier today.

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Speaker 2: Let's get ready to rumble. I'd be lying right now

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Speaker 2: if if I wasn't kind of fangirl of who's sitting

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Speaker 2: in front of me right now. All right, Tom Green

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Speaker 2: is in the studio with us right now.

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Speaker 1: Good to see you.

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Speaker 2: Good seeing you, man. How are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Good?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 1: Doing great? I'm excited to excited to be in Nashville

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Speaker 1: doing stand up comedy tonight.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna be at Zany's this weekend, ticket to twenty dollars.

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Speaker 2: And I'm literally feeling like Ricky Bobby right now because

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Speaker 2: I'm like talking with my hands because I don't know

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Speaker 2: what to do, expectally with you sitting in front of me.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying not to like you're staying here.

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Speaker 1: Oh thanks, yes, thanks you thanks for having me. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I I love getting to travel around the

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Speaker 1: country and tell jokes and hang out with people and

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Speaker 1: meet people all over. It's my first time here in

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Speaker 1: the station. Fielding. I think, Yeah, have you been to

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Speaker 1: Nashville before? I have you? I've been to Nashville before. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've been here several times. Like, I love doing stand

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Speaker 1: up at Zanie's. It's a great club.

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Speaker 2: It's an amazing club. I love like, I've never seen

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Speaker 2: a bad show there, and it's a great seat no

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Speaker 2: matter where you're at in the venue.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool too.

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Speaker 2: So let me ask you this. Let's go ahead and

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Speaker 2: go to the beginning. I was a big fan of

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Speaker 2: the show. Huh, how was it transitioning from public TV

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Speaker 1: I was. It was pretty exciting, sort of explosive time

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Speaker 1: MTV just sort of blew up. And I'd been living

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Speaker 1: getting booked on David Letterman and hosting Saturday Night Live

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Speaker 1: and all this exciting things that I'd always dreamed of.

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Speaker 1: So it was overwhelming, but it was cool, you know.

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Speaker 1: It was. MTV really kind of changed my life and

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Speaker 1: It's allowed me to now tour all over the world

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Speaker 2: Tom Green is in studio with us right now at

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Speaker 2: Zany's this weekend. You can still get tickets zanies dot

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Speaker 2: com twenty dollars a ticket for those man So you.

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Speaker 5: Still remember a moment when it clicked with you that

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Speaker 5: like you had all these idols in comedy and then

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I really, just I really, I mean

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Speaker 1: as a Canadian you grow up you're looking up looking

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Speaker 1: So to be able to do that was pretty cool.

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Speaker 5: Did you ever think that maybe someday you would want

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Speaker 5: to be an SNL regular.

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Speaker 1: Or well, when I was a kid, I wanted to. Before,

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Speaker 1: I still have it. But so when I got asked

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Speaker 1: when I started the Tom Green Show, it was almost

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Speaker 1: of comedy in a lot of ways. A lot of

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Speaker 1: a lot of my comedy was anti comedy, you know.

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Speaker 1: So then by then I was more into the street humor,

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Speaker 1: the gorilla comedy, stuff on the streets, and sketch comedy

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Speaker 1: is something that actually seems pretty hard. It seems a

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Speaker 1: little intimidating to me doing sketch comedy, But you.

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Speaker 5: Were so good at creating your own characters. That's the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean I love Saturday Night Live. It

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Speaker 1: would be cool. I definitely think that would be a

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Speaker 2: You know, it seems like now you see everybody doing

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Speaker 1: You know, there's so many shows right now that are

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Speaker 1: I would I would consider producing somebody else, I don't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really crazy. When people watch the show,

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Speaker 1: even shocking anymore. So so that's why I love stand up.

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Speaker 1: It's some more. You know, it's grounded and rooted and

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Speaker 1: I like being with people and in front of people.

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Speaker 1: So but I'm developing new TV show now. I have

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Speaker 1: just on Celebrity Big Brother.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just on Big Brother. It was pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: I got I got, I got evicted, but but it

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Speaker 1: I was on every episode. I almost won, I almost won.

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Speaker 1: I did get voted America's favorite house guest, and I

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Speaker 1: want Head of Household and Golden Power of veto twice.

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Speaker 2: And you still get kicked out of the house.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why you get kicked out. When you win

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Speaker 1: It's very counter.

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Speaker 2: Anybody on the show that you just wanted to kind

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Speaker 1: Like no comment, no comment.

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Speaker 2: Believe it.

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Speaker 5: That way you can see the most favorable guest. Do you

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Speaker 5: think so when you created the Tom Green Show, I

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Speaker 5: know you you it was a struggle for you to

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Speaker 1: Well, you have to have First of all, you have

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Speaker 1: You have to create your own opportunities. So the most

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Speaker 1: wanted to actually just be able to have a one

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Speaker 1: on one conversation with him, you know, off camera. You know.

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Speaker 1: I've been on a show a couple of times and

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Speaker 1: he let me guest host his show once, which was

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Speaker 1: incredible and a weird experience because I never even thought

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Speaker 1: that was something that I would get to do. So

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Speaker 1: but uh, you know, that would be cool. I just

445
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Speaker 1: because I like interviewing people that are interviewers because I

446
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Speaker 1: and they tend to be great guests. You know, they know,

447
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Speaker 1: they know, they know what what you're looking for. And

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Speaker 1: but I have just so many questions I'd like to

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Speaker 1: ask him about, you know, what it was like starting

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Speaker 1: out a show and outside of that, you know, I

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Speaker 1: I would also like to interview uh, you know, I

452
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Speaker 1: got to interview buzz Aldron. How was that second man

453
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Speaker 1: to walk on the moon, which was I you know,

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Speaker 1: I thought was incredible, It was amazing, you know. I

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of interest in in that and

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Speaker 1: space and technology, so I could see Elon Musk. I

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Speaker 1: think would be an amazing person to interview.

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Speaker 5: Actually, I saw on Instagram you went to the Space

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Speaker 5: Center in Huntsville.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how was that? Well, you know, I was just

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Speaker 1: driving through Huntsville yesterday and I drove past the Space

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Speaker 1: Shuttle and I said, Oh, is that the Space Shuttle

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Speaker 1: And they said, yeah, that's the Space Shuttle. So I

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Speaker 1: very go take a picture of that from my Instagram

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Speaker 1: inst it's the Space Shuttle. Better go take an Instagram

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Speaker 1: pic the Space Shuttle.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna grab. Another question off of social media, somebody

468
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Speaker 2: wanted to know, do you still get any residuals for

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Speaker 2: the Bumbum song.

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Speaker 1: I never got residuals for the Bumbump song because it

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Speaker 1: was it was released on MTV and it was it

472
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Speaker 1: was just a gag that we put out for a joke,

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Speaker 1: so it was never actually released and made available for

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Speaker 1: sale in any way. It was the number one downloaded,

475
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Speaker 1: highest downloaded song of the year in nineteen ninety nine

476
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Speaker 1: on Napster, but it was free. But we did just

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Speaker 1: put it on my record on my new vinyl release,

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Speaker 1: The Tom Green Show, so it's the last song on

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Speaker 1: the album there. It's the first time it's ever been

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Speaker 1: available for sale, so you can now actually buy the

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Speaker 1: bum Bump song and own it for yourself.

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Speaker 5: And put money back in your pocket and listen to

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Speaker 5: it on a record player.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, it sounds great on a record player. You know.

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Speaker 2: It's it's funny because I go back and look and

486
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Speaker 2: growing up, my parents were very strict and they're like,

487
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Speaker 2: they would not allow me to watch the Tom Green Show.

488
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Speaker 2: So I would sneak and watch it, and then as

489
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Speaker 2: soon as you hear the door open, I turned off

490
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Speaker 2: real quick. And that's how I became a fan of yours.

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Speaker 2: And then of course your movie career as well. The

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Speaker 2: Daddy would you like some sausage thing? Where did that?

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Speaker 2: I guess come from? Like was it just on the

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Speaker 2: fly in the movie?

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Speaker 1: Or well in a movie, you know, it's it's all

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Speaker 1: pretty planned out, because you know it's a movie. There

497
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Speaker 1: was a script that was written in the strip, you know,

498
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Speaker 1: almost a year before we shot it, so you know,

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Speaker 1: I I mean, if you want to really deconstruct the process,

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Speaker 1: it might not be that interesting for your listeners. But

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Speaker 1: you know, I think very visually sometimes when it comes

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Speaker 1: to like writing, and I just sort of had this.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I will think about things that I think would

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Speaker 1: look funny, and then I work backwards from there. So

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Speaker 1: I thought it would look funny to have a string

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Speaker 1: tied to each one of my fingers. I'm just going

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Speaker 1: up to the ceiling to a pulley system and then

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Speaker 1: attached to sausages while I play the piano, the sausages

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Speaker 1: going up and down. So we had to find a

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Speaker 1: way to work that image that I'd thought of into

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Speaker 1: the story. So then we you know, that's why it

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Speaker 1: really doesn't make a lot of sense. But so yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the things I write are visual constructed

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Speaker 1: visually first, so that's all it was. I just sort

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Speaker 1: of pictured something that I thought would look strange and

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Speaker 1: interesting and go from there.

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Speaker 2: Memorable moment of the movie right there.

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Speaker 1: And then also the musicality of it. Daddy, would you

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Speaker 1: like some sausage? Right, that's something that people remember. I

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Speaker 1: mean literally every day someone will come up to me

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Speaker 1: and say, Daddy, would you like some sausage? Every day,

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Speaker 1: every day for the last fifteen years, somebody has walked

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Speaker 1: up to me on the street and said, Daddy, would

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Speaker 1: you like some sausage?

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Speaker 2: And then you're just kind of like, yeah, yeah, there

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Speaker 2: it is.

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Speaker 1: I'd like some.

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Speaker 5: Sausage, even on your Instagram Live. I watched last night

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Speaker 5: while you're in Huntsville. You had a sausage on your

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Speaker 5: plate and.

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Speaker 1: That was yesterday's version.

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Speaker 5: Brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Every day someone says that there's a lot of things

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Speaker 1: somethings people will say.

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Speaker 2: Every day.

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Speaker 1: People will say, my bum is on the cheese. Every day,

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Speaker 1: someone will say something about the bum Bump song. Every day,

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Speaker 1: someone will will scream unleash the fury at me from

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Speaker 1: a car. You know, from road trip. You know, there's

540
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Speaker 1: all these lines from the show and movies that people

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Speaker 1: remember and it's pretty cool. That's what's the cool thing

542
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Speaker 1: is about touring is you know, I get to go

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Speaker 1: everywhere all over the country and meet people and they

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Speaker 1: all have a memory of the show or something that

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Speaker 1: they like or remember.

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Speaker 5: What's your favorite thing to do while traveling on the road.

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Speaker 1: Uh, well, I like I like eating. I like going

548
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Speaker 1: to good restaurants. If you got any recommendations for me,

549
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 1: have good food and Ashville, I'd like to go check

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Speaker 1: that out. And uh, you know, I like uh, I

551
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 1: like doing the shows. That's that's definitely fun. That takes

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Speaker 1: a lot of the energy is saved up for that.

553
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 1: So yeah, just kind of everywhere I go, I like

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Speaker 1: to go see something, get a picture of the Space

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Speaker 1: shuttle in Huntsville, you know, stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: Man, I'm just gonna go ahead and say, it's such

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Speaker 2: an honor to have you on the showy.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me on any extensive interview. This is

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Speaker 1: amazing LA this weekend, Tom.

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Speaker 2: Green twenty dollars. Definitely buy your tickets right now, dandies

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Speaker 2: dot com. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: So it wasn't as bad as I thought it was

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Speaker 2: going to be. The interview with Tom Green. Yeah, Megan

565
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Speaker 2: saved my ass quite a few times.

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Speaker 4: I think he did good. There was a lack of

567
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Speaker 4: ELI there which was noticeable. That was very sad, But

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Speaker 4: you know, I think I think, considering the circumstances, I

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Speaker 4: think you did.

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Speaker 2: You did fun. Oh yes, but it still feels weird

571
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Speaker 2: not having you a part of the interviews. And it

572
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:02,639
Speaker 2: was just very weird because I sit over here and

573
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Speaker 2: look at the empty seat because there's a see what

574
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Speaker 2: Tom Green, there's Megan, and then there's the empty seat,

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Speaker 2: and I look over and I'm just kind of oh, sad.

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Speaker 4: Well, the good news is after that trip, I don't

577
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Speaker 4: think I go anywhere for another six or seven weeks,

578
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Speaker 4: so I should should be checked up in the studio

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Speaker 4: quite a bit.

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Speaker 2: Wow, So I guess we can go ahead and talk

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Speaker 2: about upcoming guests. Possibly next week, We've got an interesting show.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk with a guy who dabbled a little

583
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Speaker 2: bit in wrestling, but his I guess claim to fame

584
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Speaker 2: is MTV's Jackass, Steve O. We'll be hanging out with

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Speaker 2: us in the studio next week. We'll talk about that

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Speaker 2: one incident with him and Chris Pontius and Umaga, and

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Speaker 2: we'll talk about what he's doing in town. And Tom

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Speaker 2: Green is at Zany's this weekend, So if you want

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Speaker 2: to grab tickets to that, they are still available, which

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Speaker 2: you can grab them. We will put out a link.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, Tom Green on the show, and if you

592
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Speaker 2: want to hear our interview earlier with Ken Shamrock, definitely

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Speaker 2: download that. Also, please please please give us a five

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Speaker 2: star review, leave us a little comment. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: I did kind of touch bases on this last week.

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Speaker 2: So WWE is coming to town in July, just so happening,

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Speaker 2: giving away free tickets. We will be giving away tickets.

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Speaker 2: How can you get your hands on those tickets next week?

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Speaker 2: Stay tuned. There it is. We'll talk to you guys

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Speaker 2: next week.

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