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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 2: You'll please for all these pros.

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

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Speaker 2: Stop it, what's up you guys?

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Speaker 3: Welcome back into I Hear Radio's official wrestling podcast, The

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Speaker 3: Battleground Podcast. It is Battle from lone Star, ninety two

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Speaker 3: to five and ninety seven point one the Eagle, and

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Speaker 3: of course you know it, you've seen it all over

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Speaker 3: the place. WWE Monday Night Raw returns to Dallas January

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Speaker 3: twentieth at America Airlines Center. Tickets, by the way, still

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Speaker 3: available ticketmaster dot com. And today on the show, we're

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Speaker 3: joined by the legendary Raquel Rodriguez joins the show. Raquel,

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Speaker 3: It's an honor and privilege to have you on the

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Speaker 3: show with us today.

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Speaker 1: Finally someone acknowledges me as the legend.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, legendary Raquel.

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Speaker 1: And everybody in Texas knows about me. I know I'm

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Speaker 1: as famous as water Burger.

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Speaker 2: Exactly. What is your goat to it? Waterburger, by the way.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it's you know, it's been one that I've

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Speaker 1: been building for a while because we used to get

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Speaker 1: free Waterburger for every sport we played. In high school,

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Speaker 1: so I had it, like, you know, three times a

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Speaker 1: week sometimes, right, But the one I would say is

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Speaker 1: my go to. Like now, I love to get a

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Speaker 1: double bacon cheeseburger with hot veniels and mustard, and then

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Speaker 1: I like to get some spicy ketchup on the side

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Speaker 1: because I like to dip if I can, or I

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Speaker 1: just like I use the thing and I just pour

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Speaker 1: a little bit of spicy ketchup on the burger and

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Speaker 1: write like that, and I want it in the burger.

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Speaker 1: I just want to put it on top, you know.

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Speaker 3: Before that, I think I might be going to Waterburger

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Speaker 3: for launch after this interview's over, now that we're.

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Speaker 1: Talking some spicy ketchup. Yeah, it's a great It's great

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Speaker 1: for the stomach. It's great for the acid reflex, Like

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Speaker 1: it'll really get you going during the day, put some

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Speaker 1: hair on your chest, you know.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think that, Well, we should petition Waterburger to

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Speaker 3: name a burger after you.

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Speaker 2: May name that burger after you. I think that's what

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Speaker 2: we're gonna do.

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Speaker 1: I think so too. Yeah, yes, I agree.

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Speaker 2: I know some of the people.

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Speaker 3: I know some of the people in the Water Burger,

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Speaker 3: you know, promotion side and marketing side. So we'll kick

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Speaker 3: that to them and be like, YO, give her this deal,

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Speaker 3: name a burger after.

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Speaker 2: Let's go on with it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go on with it. Put me on a

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Speaker 1: billboard again. I'm legendary, you know, so absolutely by a

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Speaker 1: water burger after seeing this beautiful bug fighting into a

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Speaker 1: double meat. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Let's know, you know, we talk about legendary. One of

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Speaker 2: the big things.

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Speaker 3: Recently, you participated in a women's wargame match at Survivor series.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about that for a second. What were your.

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Speaker 3: Thoughts on that experience and how did it compare to

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Speaker 3: your previous matches.

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Speaker 1: I just I love a good cage match, you know,

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Speaker 1: anything with a cage around the ring. Put me in it.

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Speaker 1: Sign me up, Yes, I'll be there. You know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. Vip right here. I had so much fun

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Speaker 1: in that match. I really really did. It's just the

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Speaker 1: possibilities are endless when it comes to matches like those,

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Speaker 1: because you can get so creative with the weapons you'r used,

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Speaker 1: with the cage, with the people that are in the ring,

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Speaker 1: and and what those people can do. You know, if

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Speaker 1: they're super like Flippy and they do all these cool

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Speaker 1: jumps like EO for example, who is she? Who is she?

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Speaker 1: Who does she think?

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Speaker 1: Jumping off at the top of the cage with a

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Speaker 1: The first time I caught her in the trash can

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Speaker 1: just I'm still in all of it because that's that's

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Speaker 1: A chef's kiss to that, that's the great that's the

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And of course you guys had to you know,

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Speaker 2: But we're gonna put that in the past. We're not.

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Speaker 2: We're not. We're not talking about the past. We're talking

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Speaker 3: About Monday Night Rawl coming to Dallas American Airlines and

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Speaker 3: you can still grab tickets ticketmaster dot com. And you know,

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Speaker 3: a lot of people when when they saw this happen,

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Speaker 3: they're like, we see something good happening. Joining the judgment

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Speaker 3: day marked a significant turn in your WWE journey. What

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Speaker 3: motivated this decision and how does it influenced your character development?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think excuse me, what motivated it was definitely

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Speaker 1: Live Morgan. I mean, you know, before I left with

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Speaker 1: I mean we didn't really end on bad terms. You know,

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Speaker 1: so watching her from home, watching her grow into this

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Speaker 1: decision to join the Judgment Day was super, super easy,

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Speaker 1: My sister always likes to joke that, like, oh, I

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Speaker 1: made Raquel you know who she is today, because I'm

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Speaker 1: She would start a fight, I would come in and

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Speaker 1: Dom is her boyfriend, and I'm just there, like kind

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Speaker 1: I see that, and I know a lot of it

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And it's it's really cool to see how the

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Speaker 3: And it's gonna be interesting to see how things play

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Speaker 2: Little bit of animosity in between everything.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we're all seeing it on TV as it

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Speaker 3: happening with Finn and JD. And you got Carlito that's

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Speaker 1: And Carlino has a purpose. Cardito has a purpose the

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Speaker 1: Just watch. Yeah. Yeah, Finn has a lot going on,

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Speaker 1: I don't want anyone to worry. Livin dom Or solid

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Speaker 3: We glad we don't have to get them like on

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Speaker 2: Hopefully that's never gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: You know, when we were going through everything getting prepared

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Speaker 3: for this interview, I know, I think you manifested this one.

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Speaker 3: You expressed interest in the past of having a women's

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Speaker 3: Intercontinental Championship, adding more titles to the women's division, and

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Speaker 3: lo and behold, we just crowned a new Intercontinental Women's

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Speaker 3: champion with Lyra Valkyrie. What impact do you believe having

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Speaker 3: the Intercontinental Women's title and the United States Women's title

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Speaker 3: being added to the women's division and how do you

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I think both of those titles are

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Speaker 1: just going to bring more tsision. It's more opportunities for

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Speaker 1: more women to step up, to step through, to show

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Speaker 1: the talent that WWE has for their women's locker room.

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Speaker 1: I think I just talked about the Women's locker Room

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Speaker 1: not too long ago about how amazing it is because

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Speaker 1: we all just want what's best for the women's We

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Speaker 1: want to be the best women's division in wrestling, and

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Speaker 1: so we all set out to put everything else aside

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Speaker 1: so having these two new titles is really going to

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Speaker 1: give more opportunities to more women who are training hard

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Speaker 1: every day and just haven't had that one chance to

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Speaker 1: the woodworks. And so I think you guys are going

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Speaker 3: Together, absolutely, and we're gonna manifest it. You're all about manifesting.

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