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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Wrestling with Freddie. Thanks for joining us,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to all of our episodes so far.

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Speaker 1: I have a guest today that I spoke about very

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Speaker 1: early on in the podcast because it was one of

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Speaker 1: the most impressive things I've seen in show business. So

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Speaker 1: let's start the show. Welcome to Wrestling with Freddy. Now

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Speaker 1: stuffing up for the mic. The host of Wrestling with Freddie,

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Speaker 1: Freddie Prince June. Yah, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the me. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. I kind of want to know,

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Speaker 1: like I feel like, I feel like I know what

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Speaker 1: the moment is, but I kind of want to know

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Speaker 1: from since we're actually here talking, like let's chat at

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Speaker 1: chit chat, let's talk, so you already know what it is.

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Speaker 1: When I got started there, after a couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: Vince wanted to show me what promo class was and

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Speaker 1: it didn't go It didn't go that well, and uh,

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Speaker 1: he asked for some notes, and I gave my opinion,

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Speaker 1: and I said, let me take over and kind of

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Speaker 1: do a lot of the acting exercises. I did an

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Speaker 1: actual acting school with the wrestlers, and let's see if

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Speaker 1: that starts to have a little bit more of an impact.

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Speaker 1: So let's go back to acting class with Freddie Prince Jr.

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Speaker 1: When we when we were told we were having acting

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Speaker 1: class with Freddie Prince Jr. Like you know, a lot

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Speaker 1: of times it's like, you know when you have it

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Speaker 1: with Vince McMahon. We had like promo class started with

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Speaker 1: like me and like six other people, and it was

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Speaker 1: and with Vince as your teacher, and you're like, oh

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Speaker 1: my god, You're like petrified. You're like you have Vince

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Speaker 1: as your teacher, and I'll never forget. Vince was like, hey, everyone,

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Speaker 1: get a promo for next week. You're gonna be cutting

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Speaker 1: it in front of the class, you know, tell about

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Speaker 1: your character everything. Me like, I like to go off

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Speaker 1: the cuffs sometimes, Like sometimes like when I'm I feel

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Speaker 1: challenged or I feel like that I don't want to

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Speaker 1: write it all down, Like I want to have bullet

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Speaker 1: points in my head, but I don't want to write

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Speaker 1: it all down. So you know, a lot of people

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Speaker 1: had there's their script. They were memorizing and all that stuff,

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Speaker 1: and so Vince saved me for last. Like five people

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Speaker 1: went before me and and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: I was called and I'll never forget. I had this

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Speaker 1: t and I had this little tiny straw and as

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Speaker 1: I got up, I sipped on the straw like and

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Speaker 1: I literally was like, now now you guys have all talked,

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Speaker 1: now it's time for me to talk. And literally I

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Speaker 1: ripped everyone apart. And then I even went and gotten

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Speaker 1: Vince's face and started cutting a promo on him and

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Speaker 1: uh and after that class, So after that class, Vince

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Speaker 1: like came up to me and was like, I knew

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Speaker 1: you could finish it off with like strong. It was

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Speaker 1: so good, you were so into it. Ah. And then

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Speaker 1: the next week I could a promo almost the same promo. Uh. Like,

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Speaker 1: I was outside the locker room because our our head

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Speaker 1: and he was like jotting stuff down, you know as

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Speaker 1: as Ammo for like the next week and what's to

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Speaker 1: come and what uh the six people had about their character.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we can drive something for the show. And Brian

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Speaker 1: was like, you're gonna cut that same promo on TV

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Speaker 1: next week. And it was the one where I standing

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Speaker 1: uh and so yeah, like so then when you came

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Speaker 1: in as a newbie, like you're you're brand new, and

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Speaker 1: a lot of times superstars they're like, this guy's gonna

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Speaker 1: if I can go in there and I can call

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Speaker 1: that will show everyone else, Hey, this guy, Oh, this

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Speaker 1: is something fun, this is something interesting, this is something exciting,

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Speaker 1: this is uh, he's gonna teach us something. If I

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Speaker 1: can like kind of relate that, because at that time,

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Speaker 1: like more months after that, four or five months after Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so so people knew me as a promo guy. So

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Speaker 1: and I've already done like acting classes before, like I

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Speaker 1: when I got when I tried out for the show,

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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna do it. I'm still gonna

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Speaker 1: my friends were like, wait, I want to try out now,

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Speaker 1: And once I made it onto the show, like I'll

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Speaker 1: never forget John Murray and Mary else Bunham calling my

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Speaker 1: the Real World. I was like, oh my god, like

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Speaker 1: my life is going to change, and it did because

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Speaker 1: I had no idea, Like where where I'm from in Parmer, Ohio,

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Speaker 1: And so when I was there, I was in business classes,

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Speaker 1: the real world and going back home department saying, all right,

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Speaker 1: And I was never forget, like I've sold the story

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Speaker 1: I was looking in the mirror and I was like,

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget. There was like a rock Action figure

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Speaker 1: There was Ohio Valley Wrestling at the time, and there

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Speaker 1: was UPW, Ultimate Pro Wrestling, and Ultimate Pro Wrestling was

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Speaker 1: I paid to go to wrestling classes and then every month,

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Speaker 1: possibly have, like wrestling is professional wrestling the art of wrestling. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's in a ring, but it's also acting. It's also improv.

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Speaker 1: hire me to do motivation speeches and what does w

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Speaker 1: So I got to practice speaking in front of a

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Speaker 1: Theo Vaughan once and I said, I knew his story

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Speaker 1: very well. I said, yo, man, you got a real

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Speaker 1: similar story to them is He said, what do you mean?

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Speaker 1: I said, well, you both started on those MTV like

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Speaker 1: and you both had a dream and when you got there,

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Speaker 1: everyone in that industry wanted you to fail, and they

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Speaker 1: even went out of their way to try and make

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Speaker 1: sure you failed. But you were so driven and so

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Speaker 1: self motivated you didn't even need them to work against you.

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Speaker 1: But if they were gonna cool, that's just more fuel

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Speaker 1: for the fire. You were on Dancing with the Stars.

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Speaker 1: Two time champion, well a lot of belts, but two

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Speaker 1: When you guys created the dirt sheet, I didn't even

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Speaker 1: But just if you could talk to me a little

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Speaker 1: bit about the process you went through and how you

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Speaker 1: stayed motivated. Maybe you don't know, but maybe we just

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Speaker 1: what it takes. You asked, like, what is it like?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I always look at like this, like

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Speaker 1: what do I want? What do I want? And I want?

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Speaker 1: each other laugh and have fun. And I've just been

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Speaker 1: really enjoying it and I'm so thankful to have a

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Speaker 1: third season. Uh. You know, now you can see Marshau

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Speaker 1: and my relationship which is really real, Like honestly, we're

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Speaker 1: we're we're bigger all the time, but there's just a

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Speaker 1: genuine amount of love. You can see the love between you,

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Speaker 1: and to get that from an in law is uh

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Speaker 1: unique and special and I'll leave it at that. Um,

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Speaker 1: But back to miss and mrs. When you guys started

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Speaker 1: this show, like you said, there has to be some

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Speaker 1: some fear on how this business so quickly stereotypes you, right,

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Speaker 1: Like I just did a movie on Netflix, shocker. It's

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Speaker 1: a romantic comedy. Um, that's that's what they like me

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Speaker 1: to do. And that's what you know they like me

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Speaker 1: to or that's what people like to see me do.

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Speaker 1: And if I want to do something else, I have

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Speaker 1: to write that for myself. Um. Yeah, So again it

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Speaker 1: goes back to saying, you know, I'm not afraid of this.

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Speaker 1: I'm going into this and now like I've seen enough

446
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Speaker 1: episodes that I've done the paperwork and I've submitted you

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Speaker 1: for st hood uh st Michael was taken already, but

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Speaker 1: STMs was not. Um. The level of patients that you have,

449
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Speaker 1: whether it's on camera or not, is you know you

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Speaker 1: have kids, You have a crazy dad. I have a

451
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Speaker 1: crazy mother, um who literally punched out my sixth grade

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Speaker 1: teacher in front of the class, Like what happened? Like

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Speaker 1: she's insane and you can't deal with her. And if

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Speaker 1: I ever put her on camera, she would kill me.

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Speaker 1: Like she's just she's that kind. But I couldn't do

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Speaker 1: what you guys do every week. But like you said,

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Speaker 1: it's not about drama. That show is all comedy all

458
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Speaker 1: the time. I love that you've brought your real friends

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Speaker 1: from the wrestling business in there. I love to see

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Speaker 1: that interaction. And these shows bring mainstream eyeballs to professional

461
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Speaker 1: wrestling and have helped it so much. I still think

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Speaker 1: to this day that Total Bella's helped build the foundation

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Speaker 1: that women's wrestling is on today. That all these girls

464
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Speaker 1: were getting twenty minute matches sometimes or not lately, but

465
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Speaker 1: for a while, we're getting twenty minute matches. All of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, when those E ratings started coming out and

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Speaker 1: Total Divas was doing numbers. All of a sudden, we

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Speaker 1: started seeing the girls on that show back in these matches.

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Speaker 1: Mainstream eyes seeing what wrestling is and finding a personality

470
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Speaker 1: they can connect with is so important. I want to

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Speaker 1: close on this, and it's directly connected to professional wrestling

472
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Speaker 1: and what's going on right now. When I worked there,

473
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Speaker 1: one of the nicest human beings, one of the kindest

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Speaker 1: men and one of the people that I was so

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Speaker 1: happy for when he found a wife and children was Edge.

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Speaker 1: Why you got beef with my guy? Dude? Like, I

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Speaker 1: love I love Edge? I love Edge. Why you got

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Speaker 1: a problem with Edge? Man? There's no denying Edges talent.

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Speaker 1: Edge is one of the most decorated superstars in in

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Speaker 1: in w w E history, And if you know anything

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Speaker 1: about me, I'm all about respect and uh and no

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Speaker 1: matter how hard I try, no matter how what I do,

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Speaker 1: it always feels like I'm overridden. Like everyone just you know,

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Speaker 1: puts me aside. And to take out and beat a

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Speaker 1: person like Edge, a superstar like Edge who has decorated,

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Speaker 1: who is respected. If you beat him, then they can't

487
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Speaker 1: help but respect you. The fans, uh, you know, critics, um,

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Speaker 1: everyone like everyone's always like yeah, he's great on the mic,

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Speaker 1: but his matches are just you know, they're just there's

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Speaker 1: And I don't I read him a lot, trust me,

491
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Speaker 1: maybe not you, but you know you read you read

492
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Speaker 1: into things a lot, and so all you want is respect.

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Speaker 1: And when all you want is respect, you want people

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Speaker 1: to cheer you, to to to pat you on the back,

495
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 1: to you know, because when you've you've heard you suck

496
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Speaker 1: for sixteen years, you know, you just want you just want,

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Speaker 1: you know, people to be like you know, maybe he

498
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Speaker 1: doesn't suck, Maybe he is really good. Maybe he deserves

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Speaker 1: our respects. Maybe he does deserve a bigger cheer and

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Speaker 1: a bigger chance than Edge, because Edge comes back, you know,

501
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Speaker 1: every other month, and he gets this big return, and

502
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Speaker 1: then there's the miss who doesn't get this big return.

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Speaker 1: So you know that that's what I look at Like

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Speaker 1: the first time I ever, I didn't first time ever

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Speaker 1: like I was even when I was injured. I was

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Speaker 1: in a wheelchair for the for the two months I

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Speaker 1: was injured, you know what I mean, Like I was

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Speaker 1: still on TV each and every time, and so when

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Speaker 1: I made a comeback, I was like, oh man, I

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Speaker 1: made the comeback. Here we go. Let's go and I

511
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Speaker 1: was like, yeah, you're I don't really have one. Edge

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Speaker 1: is getting to come back this week. I'm like, wait,

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to go, like screwed. I'll just interrupt Edge.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna do. And that's what I did,

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Speaker 1: and now here we go. I beat Edge. I feel

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Speaker 1: like I'll get the New Year Day. You're gonna put

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Speaker 1: it on him? Yeah, I mean New Year's Day. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's what better way to start two than beating one

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Speaker 1: of the most highly decorated superstars in ww's history. And

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Speaker 1: you have my respect. And just so you know, they

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Speaker 1: hate you because you literally have everything you have and

522
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 1: a very much because good looking dudes they want to

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Speaker 1: punch in the face. Man, get used to that. I

524
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Speaker 1: had to go through that before I got old, and

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Speaker 1: one day you'll be old. To listen, brother, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for being on the podcast. I appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: It's so good to see you. It's I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: i'm proud of you, because that's almost disrespectful. I'm just

529
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Speaker 1: impressed by you and all the choices that you've made

530
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Speaker 1: with your career and getting to sit back and kind

531
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Speaker 1: of watch as a fan and not connected anymore. It's

532
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: just impressive every step of the way. You literally go

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Speaker 1: all in on every single freaking thing you do. It

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Speaker 1: is a shining example for other creative people out there.

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Speaker 1: Whether you're a wrestler, a writer, a sculptor, video game streamer,

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Speaker 1: I don't care what you do, that you're a shining

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Speaker 1: example of showing the type of dedication and fearlessness necessary

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Speaker 1: to succeed in in in business, man, in show business

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Speaker 1: and entertainment, which is something you love. So thank you, brother, well,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much for having me. And it's it's

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Speaker 1: always an honestly like I'll never forget, you know, promo classes,

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Speaker 1: acting classes with you. They were always a blast. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm glad that you know we're able to

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Speaker 1: get on this podcast and actually have a conversation because

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Speaker 1: I feel like, I don't know, but you guys work

546
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Speaker 1: more than stand up comics. It's hard enough having friends

547
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: that are comedians. You guys work more than them. So

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Speaker 1: it's it's tough, brother, but just no many big love

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Speaker 1: and big respect, and I appreciate your brother. This has

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Speaker 1: been a production of I Heart Radio's Michael Tura podcast Network.

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