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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to battle Ground. This is a podcast.

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Speaker 1: We're battling friends, talk all things wrestling, and laugh with

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Speaker 1: comedians that are way funnier than him. And you never

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Speaker 1: know who's going to stop by. Here is your host, battle.

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Speaker 2: All right, So I'm gonna go ahead and let you

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Speaker 2: in on the little secret before you start listening to

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Speaker 2: this episode. I'm a complete dumbass, and apparently I did

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Speaker 2: not realize my mic was not on until about maybe.

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Speaker 3: Ten minutes into the interview.

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Speaker 4: Accidents happened.

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Speaker 2: Accidents do happen, But please forgive me and still love

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Speaker 2: us and leave me a five star comment. But you

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Speaker 2: can make a funny jab about how Battle is a

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Speaker 2: rookie and never turned on his microphone. So without further ado,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna get into this week's episode right now. We

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Speaker 2: also do have a special guest on the show, mister Brickster.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk about him as well, and we're just gonna

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Speaker 2: have some fun. So enjoy uh me being an idiot

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Speaker 2: for the next ten minutes when not turning a microphone on,

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Speaker 2: it's like trying to loosen up before start the weirdest

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Speaker 2: thing in the world. But we are back it is

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Speaker 2: time for another week. It is well, it's not time

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Speaker 2: for another week, It's time for another episode of battle Ground.

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Speaker 2: My name is battle Uh and Eli's over here with

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Speaker 2: me and Uh. Each week we just sit here and

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Speaker 2: talked wrestling. That's all we do, wrestling and make fun

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Speaker 2: of people. And let's just want him jump right into it.

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Speaker 2: The one thing that everybody has been talking about, the

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Speaker 2: very very horrible, shitty money in the bank pay per

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Speaker 2: view and the way it ended.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been thinking about what I'm gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 5: say ever since Sunday night.

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Speaker 2: You know, I go back to in Living Color and

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Speaker 2: hated it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I give it a C plus.

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Speaker 2: You're giving it a little too generous.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you know, the women's a briefcase match

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Speaker 5: was good and then Bailey cashed in. Becky that that

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Speaker 5: whole thing kind of went like we said, lose to

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Speaker 5: Lacey or she beats Lacey and then loses to Charlotte.

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Speaker 4: I didn't expect the cash in that night.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that is really cool when you when you have it.

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Speaker 5: That same night, the I was reading that they're they're

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Speaker 5: trying to get Charlotte to seventeen.

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Speaker 4: Rains though to beat her dad.

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Speaker 5: So like that's why they said that she's gonna she's

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Speaker 5: gonna have a lot of these two and three and

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Speaker 5: four week reigns just to get her.

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Speaker 2: I get that part, but it's like you're then kind

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Speaker 2: of tarnishing it just so she could say that she's

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Speaker 2: better than her dad. And you know, we all know

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Speaker 2: how this is gonna be there. Put the storylines back

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Speaker 2: to where she hates her dad.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we all see how Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Well, and it's you know, Rick Flair had more titles

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Speaker 5: than sixteen anyway. I don't know, I don't know why

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Speaker 5: that's the number they agree on, but it's like.

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Speaker 2: Goldberg's record in w W, it was like one hundred

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Speaker 6: Three and zero.

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, I mean some people have it as the

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Speaker 5: like twenty five or twenty six reigns. So anyways, so

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Speaker 5: you're gonna see the SmackDown title definitely lose some luster

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Speaker 5: in the next couple probably year, whatever how long it's

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Speaker 4: It was weird me and you talked about it.

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Speaker 5: The raw tag team champions weren't the titles weren't defended

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Speaker 2: Very weird because they like pushed this big ordeal to

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Speaker 2: thing WrestleMania, the Iconics wanted. And then it's just kind of.

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Speaker 5: Like, yeah, they and and they're getting a reaction, like

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Speaker 5: people kind of like love to hate them.

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Speaker 4: And I don't know why they weren't. They weren't on

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Speaker 3: And it didn't get pre showed either.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't get pre showed.

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Speaker 5: The SmackDown Champ fought the USO's but it was a

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Speaker 2: But it was like if they won the number one

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Speaker 2: this whole bouncing back and forth back and fourth wild

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they've done this. It seems like it's been a

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Speaker 5: and it's like it's almost like they're like dangling the

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Speaker 5: carrot's like, oh, well they beat he beat him in

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Speaker 4: Know, so.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. Rollins and Styles was solid, you know,

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Speaker 5: Kofe and Ko was solid, you know, getting to the

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Speaker 5: men's recase. So first off, here we go.

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Speaker 2: This is this is where we've been waiting this part

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 5: So first off, the match itself was great. I mean

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Speaker 5: a lot of you know, Ali had some big spots

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Speaker 5: Finn Balor, but the whole thing with like sammy' zaying

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Speaker 5: so like, so you mean to tell me that brock

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Speaker 5: Lesnar jumped him and then shrung him up upside down

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Speaker 5: in the back, Like that would be something that like

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Speaker 5: bray Wyatt would And that's what we.

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Speaker 2: Were texting back and forth because I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: he's strung upside down.

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Speaker 4: You're like, here we go, here we.

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Speaker 6: Go, We're finally getting it.

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Speaker 4: That would have been a perfect debut. And I sent

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Speaker 2: Tweet about, you know something about bray Wyatt and somebody

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Speaker 2: actually with Jojo because apparently she almost died giving birth

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Speaker 2: I get that that if that was the thing, then

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Speaker 2: you know, I get being with your family. But you know,

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Speaker 2: I was kind of reading some of the so called

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Speaker 2: was it was planned to have that eighth person come in.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't known that it was going to be brought.

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Speaker 2: Nobody knew until Brock got to the gorilla position that

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no one in the match new.

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Speaker 6: And nobody knew.

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Speaker 2: And that was why they made Ali as that guy

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Speaker 2: was like, they're literally about to just hand Ali, who

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Speaker 5: And I mean everyone thought it was Braun, you know,

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Speaker 5: don't know what would have happened, but I mean he

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Speaker 4: Picture before elimination chamber.

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, so you know, not to say that here

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Speaker 5: we would be in ali Mania right now or anything,

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Speaker 5: but you know, just bad timing.

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Speaker 4: You never know what would happened.

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Speaker 5: But he's been killing it on Facebook or Twitter and

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Speaker 5: Instagram and stuff. He uh, he'd made a crack about

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Speaker 5: rock climbing the ladder. He said that's the most wrestling

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Speaker 5: he's done all year. Yeah, and then he did him

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Speaker 5: and Andre da fault last night, and he posted on

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Speaker 4: A full name. So yeah, so he's so he's he's

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Speaker 4: killing it right now.

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Speaker 5: But uh yeah, I thought it was going to be

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Speaker 5: strange if that was his his pick. But I don't know, man,

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Speaker 5: they just can't well and me and You've talked about

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Speaker 5: it off off air. But you know, for what Brock

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Speaker 5: is paid every years, he's paid roughly about five hundred

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Speaker 5: thousand bucks a match, so the McMahon's are always going

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Speaker 5: to make him a big deal. He may not have

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Speaker 6: And you know, you kind of look at it.

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Speaker 2: Because after watching Roll and smacking Down the other night

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Speaker 2: course we've never seen the side of Brock that we

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Speaker 2: saw the other night of him coming out with the

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Speaker 4: You can see a funny video.

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Speaker 3: We have a burner Instagram.

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Speaker 2: It's Battleground podcast by the way to a great Limb

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Speaker 2: Biscuit record. But it's uh, the thing that, yes, the

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Speaker 2: Lars's the guy that hung sammy' zane upside down.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that was you know obviously if you google,

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Speaker 5: you know he's got a lot of Lawrence Hays, a

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Speaker 5: lot of heatn't even right now and they just find

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Speaker 5: So I think they've kind of cooled a little bit

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Speaker 5: on him. I mean, I think he's going to be

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Speaker 5: I think, you know, with all that stuff right now,

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Speaker 5: I think that would have been just a lightning rod.

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Speaker 5: But but yeah, it was just the whole thing with

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Speaker 5: and stuff. That was just not many people on the

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Speaker 5: roster that's their character, right. So but like you said,

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Speaker 5: maybe it's a new Brock lisoner. Maybe now he's giddy

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Speaker 5: and he's kind of whatever. It's almost like he's thriving

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Speaker 2: I think that they're gonna roll it, because it's like

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Speaker 2: he got up on the top yelling at people on

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Speaker 2: all know his mic skills suck.

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Speaker 4: That's why.

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Speaker 2: And Paul Hayman has going to make Brock relevant, especially

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Speaker 2: now that he has this money in the bank, because

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Speaker 2: you saw the other night on SmackDown, you know, at

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Speaker 2: the end of Kofe's match or whatever, he's holding there

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Speaker 2: of course we get the appearance of who's been away

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Speaker 2: for who knows how long, But it's like it's making

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Speaker 2: the money in the bank contract relevant, keeping Brock's name

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Well, and it's it's funny because Paul he referenced Rocky

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Speaker 5: so that was kind of funny. But I mean, he

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Speaker 4: You know, this is so bad.

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Speaker 2: The stuff that I've been sitting there seeing is like

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's I Yeah, Well okay, so everyone everyone

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Speaker 2: Which that just goes to show right there that it's

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Speaker 5: And it's also not a twenty four to seven thing. Well,

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Speaker 4: I'm out.

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Speaker 2: And it's kind of funny because I'm sitting there watching

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Speaker 2: but look at that. I mean he's running around and.

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Speaker 4: Somebody throwing flyers out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And somebody though the night made the funny comment of,

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Speaker 2: you know, Drake Maverick looks like that one rhino at

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Speaker 3: In the pack running.

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Speaker 2: But you know, it's it's great that it brings all

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Speaker 3: I mean ready to rumble.

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Speaker 4: Kind of turned a corner.

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Speaker 5: So I was surprised you want it, but I mean

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Speaker 5: know what, we're gonna do this twenty four hour thing.

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Speaker 5: Let's let's get a belt by Monday. And that's all

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Speaker 3: It's a green strap.

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Speaker 2: There's nothing on the side plate, and it's it's a

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Speaker 2: it's a coming. It's coming speaking of something else that's

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Speaker 2: so it looks like a very stacked card. You know,

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Speaker 2: Jericho and Omega, You've got the Roads versus Roads, You've

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that'll probably still the show.

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Speaker 2: And then you know, you've got Adam Page and and

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Speaker 2: that's actually not happening anymore, is it not.

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Speaker 3: I guess I'm just kind of scrolling off of Twitter

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they so, I guess, I guess they had a

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Speaker 4: I got that fly out.

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Speaker 2: Well? Well, yeah, so make sure that you like our

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Speaker 2: face page, follow us on Instagram Battleground Podcast, and we're

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Speaker 2: on Twitter Battleground I h R. But now enough of

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna let Eli set this one up.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so this guy could be an honorary member of

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Speaker 5: New Day. I mean just just positivity. And you know,

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Speaker 5: he's one of those he has a message that goes

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Speaker 4: So I'm I'm all on board with that.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, so we have in the studio mister Brickster.

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Speaker 4: Here we go.

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Speaker 3: Let's get ready to rumble.

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Speaker 2: All right, we are back with another episode of Battleground,

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Speaker 2: a very special episode today. A local legend, That's what

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Speaker 2: I'm saying right now, A local legend is in the

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Speaker 3: How about that?

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Speaker 4: I support it? Of course for me.

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Speaker 2: Let's let's introduce the entire world to mister brickster.

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Speaker 3: How you doing, man, good.

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Speaker 6: Man, Thank you so much. I appreciate you guys for

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Speaker 6: having me. It's just a beautiful day here in Nashville,

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Speaker 6: even though it's raining. Just the people out here are beautiful,

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Speaker 6: the vibes are beautiful. It's possibly the best city in

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this because I know that you're

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Speaker 6: I mean, I mean popped him? You know, it was

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Speaker 6: you know, gloves off, I mean, you know people you

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Speaker 2: So I think the Bills would have gone to the

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Speaker 6: I just had to throw that out there when probably

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Speaker 2: We would have tried their best, that's for sure. Well,

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Speaker 2: we didn't win anither of that year. But let's let's

441
00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,080
Speaker 2: move past football and let's talk about your background. How

442
00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:09,240
Speaker 2: did uh Let's just give everybody a little synopsis of

443
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:10,600
Speaker 2: how everything started.

444
00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:12,760
Speaker 6: So is it. If I'm traveling a little bit, it

445
00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:14,399
Speaker 6: will still pick me up pretty yeah, it'll be on

446
00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,600
Speaker 6: either one of these two. Sweet because I got my

447
00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 6: little guy with me. You know, one thing about me

448
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,200
Speaker 6: is I'm a stay at home dad. So I watched

449
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,160
Speaker 6: my boy valor Monday through Friday.

450
00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,399
Speaker 4: And for those they can't see, he is killing it

451
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:27,840
Speaker 4: right now.

452
00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:28,680
Speaker 3: He is man.

453
00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,120
Speaker 6: He's in here right now. He's moving around during the week.

454
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:36,439
Speaker 6: We moved down here to Nashville. Well, baby, what do

455
00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:37,080
Speaker 6: you want to sit through?

456
00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:38,399
Speaker 3: Okay, we moved.

457
00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,000
Speaker 6: Down here to Nashville, probably about a year and a

458
00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,240
Speaker 6: half ago. He felt called compelled to move to a

459
00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,320
Speaker 6: new city. We came down here with nobody, no family,

460
00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,200
Speaker 6: no friends, just packed up a U haul fuck called

461
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,360
Speaker 6: by God. We wanted to be obedient. We got into

462
00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:51,680
Speaker 6: you hall. We came. So when we came here, part

463
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:55,040
Speaker 6: of the mission was I'm pursuing the wrestling dream. My

464
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 6: wife's a boss, she's making the money, and I take

465
00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:59,399
Speaker 6: care of a little boy during the week, so we

466
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:04,080
Speaker 6: don't have all the all the babysitting people putting spot yet.

467
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,840
Speaker 6: So typically he's traveling with me. So I got him

468
00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 6: today and he's just he's awesome. So it's been a blessing.

469
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:16,240
Speaker 2: The question again, there it is right here with me,

470
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 2: and I'm kind of jealous about the outfit that he's

471
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,000
Speaker 2: got on. I'm sitting here looking I'm wearing T shirts

472
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,159
Speaker 2: and jeans and he's over here styling and profile and

473
00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:23,880
Speaker 2: he is.

474
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,200
Speaker 6: Man, he's styling profile. He's got it. You know, we can't.

475
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:29,440
Speaker 6: I can't let him go out like that. You know, man,

476
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 6: I can't let him go out like that.

477
00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:32,600
Speaker 2: You got to bring some of that New York style

478
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:33,919
Speaker 2: down here, got you?

479
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 6: Got you? Well, what was the question again?

480
00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 2: I think it was a little bit of like we

481
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:39,720
Speaker 2: just kind of won your background, and you just kind

482
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:41,480
Speaker 2: of summed it up right now, that's the background.

483
00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,240
Speaker 6: I mean, I got in the entertainment business years ago.

484
00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 6: This is kind of something that's starting to come out

485
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:51,320
Speaker 6: in the wrestling business. But maybe about I don't know,

486
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,000
Speaker 6: maybe about thirteen years ago. My first entertainment you know,

487
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 6: situation was I was casting on a show on VH

488
00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 6: one called I Love New York. Was a character by

489
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 6: the name of Romance. At the time, it just so

490
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 6: happened to be a huge show at the right time.

491
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 6: It's right when reality TV was popping.

492
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's right after.

493
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 6: The Flavor of Love and all that type of stuff,

494
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:13,520
Speaker 6: and ended up going on to kind of be one

495
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 6: of the more so. I think it's the most network

496
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,680
Speaker 6: watch television show of all time. Yeah, you know, even

497
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 6: over the Kardashian So that's kind of where I started.

498
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 6: I did that for a while. I was on this wave,

499
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:25,400
Speaker 6: but I was young, and I was making a lot

500
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:29,359
Speaker 6: of bad decisions, and you know, I just I just yeah,

501
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:30,239
Speaker 6: I just I was.

502
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 2: I was.

503
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 6: I was young. So basically after that, got back in

504
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 6: the workforce, had a family. I had a great wife,

505
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,399
Speaker 6: thank god, and then you know, just kind of was

506
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 6: just bringing home the money and not really using my gifts,

507
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,239
Speaker 6: I would say. And just after just years of just

508
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,560
Speaker 6: you know, sixty hours a week or whatever and making

509
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,720
Speaker 6: this company all this money and not feeling appreciated, I

510
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,439
Speaker 6: was just like, man, I'm not using my gifts. So

511
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 6: I just felt called the wrestling. I went all in.

512
00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,200
Speaker 6: I felt that's what the business needs this day and age,

513
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,440
Speaker 6: and if you want to be a wrestler, it's so competitive,

514
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,120
Speaker 6: so if you're not all in, you're probably not gonna

515
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 6: make it. And we just put everything on the line

516
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 6: sold the whole house hold, the whole barn, and we're all.

517
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 4: In that's killer.

518
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 5: Well, the second question was about I Love New York,

519
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 5: so you you kind of touched on that. Can you

520
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 5: kind of explain that a little bit, like, you know,

521
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,040
Speaker 5: what was the selection processed and what what was the

522
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,359
Speaker 5: actual experience on the show, because you're right, I mean

523
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,680
Speaker 5: there was a time where VH one was probably the

524
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:31,680
Speaker 5: top reality show network. I mean they had that they

525
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 5: had was a Tool Academy. They had Rock Love, Daisy Love.

526
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 5: I mean it was like a big deal. Yeah yeah,

527
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,720
Speaker 5: Charms School, Charm School, you know.

528
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 6: Then the guys that I did the show with Chance

529
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 6: and Real shoutout Chance, you know, rest in peace, real

530
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,640
Speaker 6: great guys. You know, they had Saddle uh I think

531
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 6: it was Saddle Ranch and so yeah, so there was

532
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 6: a really good spin and and you know it was

533
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 6: rate when reality TV was kind of you know, I

534
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,600
Speaker 6: think Survivor kind of started putting it on on the map.

535
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,200
Speaker 6: Then American Idol started putting it on the math Man

536
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 6: and then all of a sudden it started getting a

537
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 6: little bit raunch and then that's when it took a

538
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 6: spin because you know, I guess just the world this

539
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 6: day and A just loves reckless stuff. Yeah, you know,

540
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 6: so then that's kind of when it took it. I

541
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 6: was down in Florida and Ebor City at the Amphithet.

542
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 6: I'll never forget this. I went down with friends for

543
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 6: a birthday, just got out of a bad breakup. They

544
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 6: felt I needed a vacation. I think I'm just turning

545
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,360
Speaker 6: twenty one and like, I'm just down there, man, yeah,

546
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 6: you know, I just buying dreams for girl my thing.

547
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 6: Little did I know there's people on the top floor

548
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,960
Speaker 6: looking down, kind of scoping the scene, and they were

549
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,120
Speaker 6: casting for a TV show. They kind of just came

550
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 6: down and scooped me. You know, because being from Buffalo,

551
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 6: we don't necessarily have any entertainment. We have a lot

552
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,719
Speaker 6: of hard working, blue collar people. People work so hard

553
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 6: and that's where I've learned a lot of my work

554
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,160
Speaker 6: ethic from. But you know, when I have entertainment in Buffalo.

555
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 6: So I did this cast and call it went back

556
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:58,880
Speaker 6: and my life is never the same man.

557
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,160
Speaker 2: Just just hearing the story about how this all kind

558
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 2: of started, and it's it's it's it's a very great story.

559
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 2: And just hearing how everything started and how you got

560
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,879
Speaker 2: called down here and everything. Let's kind of jump into

561
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 2: the pro wrestling thing. What uh when did you decide

562
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 2: you wanted to be a pro wrestler and has had

563
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 2: you always wanted to do this?

564
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 6: So basically I realized after walking around, well, okay, let's

565
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 6: go back. So my dad brought me up on pro wrestling.

566
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 6: He brought me up on you know, he was crazy.

567
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 6: My dad was wild. He was just such an exotic guy,

568
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 6: and he was so unique and he loved you know,

569
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 6: Extreme Championship Wrestling, and it would come to Buffalo and

570
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 6: we would just all bring We're young, We're so young.

571
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,920
Speaker 6: He'd be like, get the weapons. He would go there

572
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:43,959
Speaker 6: and you know, next thing, and I was seeing the

573
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 6: Sandman and Saboo and Tazz and El Snow and I'm young, right,

574
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 6: I'm seeing this in front of my.

575
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 2: Eyes New Jack back when it was e c W.

576
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, like you know, you know Paul Hayman with the

577
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 6: hat and ponytail. You know, dude's awesome. You know, this

578
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 6: is stuff was just so authentic. That's the best way

579
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 6: to put it. Was raw and authentic. And I just

580
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 6: seen it and it was just so compelled. It was

581
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 6: just awesome and I loved it. And then you know,

582
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 6: we got into the cheater box and the pancakes, and

583
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 6: I know, you knew people don't know about that, but

584
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 6: that's how we used to steal cable, and my dad

585
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 6: used to steal cable for us. So'd you have the pancake,

586
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 6: the cheater box, we'd all had one another. Yeah, and like,

587
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 6: blieve me, man, it wasn't like this high depth stuff guys,

588
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 6: So it's not like you know, but whatever we've seen

589
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 6: was still magic. And we had rent all the well

590
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 6: we want to rent, but you would get together and

591
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 6: act like we would rent them all and we would

592
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 6: watch them and it was just amazing. And then my

593
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 6: dad tragically passed away probably about five years ago, off

594
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 6: a sinus infection, and we were best friends. So, you know,

595
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 6: it was one of those things where when I got

596
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 6: out of the business, or when I got out of

597
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 6: the workforce and pursued the wrestling business, I wanted to

598
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 6: do it to kind of, you know, honor him and

599
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 6: respect him. He's never seen me in a ring, he's

600
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 6: never seen me wrestle. My dad never knew I would

601
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 6: ever be a wrestler. It's so sad, but It's just

602
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 6: one of those things where I just felt it would

603
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 6: honor him. And this is kind of a flip side

604
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 6: of it, to circle it back around. I just look

605
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 6: like a wrestler. I don't know why God created.

606
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 3: Me that way.

607
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 6: It just is what it is. But for years I'd

608
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 6: walk around with my wife, my kid anywhere fars malls

609
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 6: and I people running up to me wrestler, wrestler, Dolf Zigler,

610
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 6: Kenny Omega, and then of course if they don't know

611
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 6: wrestling and they just remember it's like, you know, Bret Harry,

612
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 6: Sean Michaels, Yeah, I don't want to mull it. You're

613
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 6: a wrestler. And you know, after a while of just

614
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 6: walking around and breaking kids dreams, because as soon as

615
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 6: I turned around they found out I wasn't Kenney O'megar

616
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 6: Dolf Zigger, they basically would cry and run away. I

617
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 6: was like, well, I love wrestling. It's something that I'm into.

618
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 6: I could honor my dad, It's got my full entertainment background,

619
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 6: it's challenging, definitely will help me overcome fear. And it

620
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 6: was just all those things where I just felt called

621
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 6: to it, but I felt called to wrestling not so

622
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 6: much because of what I did in the ring, but

623
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 6: what I do outside the ring, because my message is

624
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 6: everything to my wrestling.

625
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 2: Right and it's you know, I've kind of followed along

626
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 2: and ever since I got introduced to you through a

627
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 2: mutual friend of mine in Eli's Jesse, I've been kind

628
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 2: of following your story and you know, love everything that

629
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 2: you're doing, and love you know, the character and your

630
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 2: matches that I've seen on YouTube, and it's like phenomenal

631
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 2: stuff right there.

632
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 6: Thank you so much. And you know, I've only had

633
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 6: like thirty five plays in my life, you know. I

634
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 6: mean there's people have hundreds of matches and stuff like that.

635
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,239
Speaker 6: I've only had thirty five. And I've been doing it

636
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 6: for years. I trained for a year and a half

637
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 6: before I went to the ring. You know, Lex Luger's

638
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 6: my dad mentor in the business, and he brought me

639
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 6: up and I knew, damn right, I would never disrespect

640
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 6: that business. So I got brought up the right way.

641
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 6: I didn't do three weeks of training and getting the

642
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 6: ring and do a superkick and call myself a young buck.

643
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 6: I made sure and not only that, through my training,

644
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 6: I blew my knee out and that took twelve sixteen

645
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 6: months to come back, and so by the time I

646
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 6: even had my first match, I was already a couple

647
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 6: of years in. I was banged up, surgeries and broke.

648
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 6: So it's just one of those things where but that's

649
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 6: my journey of wrestling. Everyone's different. There's people that will

650
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 6: do a try out next week, get a job, well

651
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 6: baby fun. Sorry, I'm just asking. There's people that have

652
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 6: different journeys, and you know, there's different That's my journey.

653
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 6: I was called to it, and you know, it's okay,

654
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 6: But you know, I was brought up a grappler's anonymous

655
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 6: up in Buffalo, New York. They taught me Brandon Thurston,

656
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 6: Brax and Sutter Mikey every night. They taught me the

657
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 6: basic foundations of how to just respect a ring, basic fundamentals.

658
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 2: You know.

659
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 6: Then I came down here, got polished up by Crux

660
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 6: Wrestling carry off O, Kevin Coo. You know, Dylan Holl's

661
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:53,719
Speaker 6: has been huge, Southern underground pro is home, and I've

662
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 6: just been around the right people. I constantly been around

663
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,239
Speaker 6: people that are better than me. And the thing that

664
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 6: I want to do for wrestling is carrying my message

665
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 6: is the Brickster and it's brick by brick and it's

666
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 6: much like Lego's becoming all different shape, size and colors.

667
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 6: But when we come together, we can build great things.

668
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 6: And more than anything, that's all I care about doing

669
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 6: is just sharing that message. I think it's what the

670
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 6: world needs right now. I think wrestling is about a

671
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 6: bunch of guys trying to be the badasses, and not

672
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 6: many wanted to be the John Cena. And that's my heart.

673
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 6: I'm a dad. I love kids, I love people coming together.

674
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 6: I love speaking at schools. This is my life. Brickster

675
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 6: is my life. This isn't just just a character. That's

676
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 6: just false. I walk around with Lego bow ties now

677
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 6: I walk around with them in the ring. So that's

678
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 6: just kind of a little bit of what wrestling is

679
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 6: to me. Sorry, I'm so passionate about it because I'm

680
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 6: willingly give almost everything up besides my wife and kid

681
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 6: for it. And I know I'm babbling a little bit,

682
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 6: but that's just a little bit of my message.

683
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 2: That's why we brought you, and that's you know, and

684
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 2: like you know, I just said, that's why we brought

685
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 2: you on. We want our listeners and we want pretty

686
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 2: much the world to know about you and your career

687
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 2: and everything that you've been through. And you kind of

688
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 2: touched on Lex Luger for a little bit, and Eli's

689
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 2: got something that he has written up for over here.

690
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,479
Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean, just kind of dig into your

691
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 5: relationship with him a little bit. And I mean, in

692
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 5: my humble opinion, I don't know why he's not in

693
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 5: the Hall of Fame. You know, growing up, I'm a

694
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 5: sting dude.

695
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 4: That was my guy.

696
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 5: But I mean, yeah, but I mean him and Luger

697
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 5: they had some battles and Luger's a multi time world champ,

698
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 5: probably the best US champ of all time. No no

699
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 5: offense to Johnson, uh but uh yeah. I mean just

700
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 5: kind of dig into to that. I mean, is it

701
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 5: is it just some mentorship or has he given you advice?

702
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,719
Speaker 5: I mean, what's what's what's been me?

703
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 6: And it's just been it's been favor it's been a blessing,

704
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 6: it's been humbling to Basically, I started my career and

705
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 6: there's people around me that were very worried about the

706
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 6: wrestling business, as I would hope anyone would be for

707
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 6: some starting the career. Just kind of seeing the way

708
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 6: it was in the past and what it does in

709
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 6: your body and the travel. And so I had some

710
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 6: really good people in my life back in Buffalo, people

711
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 6: from the chapel that just kind of, you know, just

712
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 6: cared about me, you know, and just cared about the

713
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 6: decisions I was making and was watching from Afar from

714
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 6: a different through a different lens, and they just realized, Hey,

715
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 6: Lex Luger came back to Buffalo. He unfortunately came back

716
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 6: to Buffalo from Atlanta. He's born and raised in Buffalo.

717
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 6: His dad passed away, so he had to come back

718
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 6: and do his mom And that was kind of right

719
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 6: when I was maybe about eight nine months into training,

720
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 6: and he started going to our church. And one of

721
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 6: the main guys at the church, my brother runs the

722
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 6: group there, Vintage. He's the college pastor. Shout out to

723
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 6: my brother. He's been a huge mentor where my life.

724
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 6: Love him to death. But anyways, Lex are going there

725
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 6: when the higher ups, Ryan Cozy love him to death.

726
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 6: He scheduled lunch with us, and I just went to lunch.

727
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 6: He's like, Hey, how about a guy who's been in

728
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 6: the business and a guy who wants to get into business.

729
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 6: Let's all get together and we could all learn. And

730
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 6: you know what, me, I could learn, I'm in. That's

731
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 6: my that's my door open. I don't care where where

732
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 6: you are, top, bottom of the food chain. If the

733
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 6: door's open and I can learn, I'm in. So I

734
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,280
Speaker 6: was like, yeah, let's do that. And plus I loved Lex,

735
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 6: you know, so it's kind of like, you know, you're

736
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 6: just a fan and stuff. So we just sat together

737
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 6: and I just told my story and he just kind

738
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:23,280
Speaker 6: of looked at me and and he just he believed,

739
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,359
Speaker 6: he believed in me, you know. So it was like

740
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 6: we just really linked up and started meet with him

741
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 6: weekly and then you know, I was getting some advice

742
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 6: not only through wrestling, but just the business side of it,

743
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 6: how to market myself. He was one of the first

744
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 6: wrestlers to get a contract. I don't know if you

745
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 6: know that, but he's kind of, you know, he kind

746
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 6: of started that because he came from the NFL once

747
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 6: the wrestling business rate when contracts really weren't coming out yet.

748
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,320
Speaker 6: So since he had all that knowledge, because he had goodness,

749
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,280
Speaker 6: maybe had a I think it was like a fifteen

750
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 6: year football career before he wrestled, you know, before we

751
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 6: had all that knowledge. He came in, got himself a contract,

752
00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 6: all that you know flair, all those guys seen that.

753
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 6: So he kind of was the you know, the first one. Yeah,

754
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 6: he headed that up, you know. And so he just

755
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 6: taught me the business side and how important it is

756
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 6: just to constantly build relationships and build family and you

757
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 6: got to build your brand.

758
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 2: Now.

759
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 6: You know, we're on music row right now. We're in Nashville, Tennessee.

760
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 6: There's probably you know, people all through this area right

761
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 6: now that are all just trying to make it, you know,

762
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 6: with that one song or you know that one big

763
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 6: hit wonder. But that's just not how it works even here.

764
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 6: You need to go city to city and build relationship

765
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 6: by relationship and share your message and build your brand.

766
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:39,760
Speaker 6: No company wants you unless you've already done the hard work.

767
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,439
Speaker 6: So that's just the way it is now. So Brick Nation,

768
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 6: brick by brick, mister bricks. They're built like bricks. It's

769
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:49,439
Speaker 6: a brand, it's a message, and we're just going city

770
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 6: to city trying to build people up, trying to learn

771
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 6: and just constantly be around people that are better than us.

772
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 2: Man, just sitting here, I'm getting like goosebums, like I

773
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 2: feel like listening to you talk, I want to run

774
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 2: through all and it's not gonna like affect me right now,

775
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,399
Speaker 2: just because of the hype that you've given us.

776
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 6: And it's one of those things where if I don't

777
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 6: believe it, why is someone else gonna believe it?

778
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:12,479
Speaker 2: Right?

779
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 6: So I'm constantly going in front of these people, and

780
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 6: I was thinking about this on the way here. You know,

781
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 6: all elite wrestling, right, I don't even know if we're

782
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 6: gonna touch on this, but I'm going into it. So

783
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 6: they just did this big, huge thing on their TV

784
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 6: show or their episode show, casting for a librarian. I

785
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 6: was watching my boy much like I am now. He

786
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 6: was just so happened to be napping in the room

787
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 6: and I got out the phone and cut about a

788
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 6: ten second promo for him. It absolutely went a little farther,

789
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 6: Thank Jesus, out of all this ambitions, as I became

790
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 6: their librarian for about four weeks, we cast it. When

791
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 6: they came in Nashville, they posted it, they decided not

792
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 6: to use it, and then they decide to use other people.

793
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 6: The point of it is is this is people seen everything.

794
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 6: Their guards are up. It's a reckless world. People are

795
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 6: trying to get in the wrestling business without the right message,

796
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 6: trying to be selfish. All these people making the big

797
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 6: decisions in the business, they've seen it. All their guards

798
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 6: are up now. So you've got to be very creative

799
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 6: and unique to these companies for them to even see you.

800
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 6: The point of the librarian is is they know the librarian,

801
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 6: but they don't even know the brickster, and they haven't

802
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 6: even had the chance to ask. And it's okay because

803
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 6: the way the business is so if I can't go

804
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 6: in the front, I'll eventually go in the back. But

805
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 6: I'm gonna get in. I'm gonna land somewhere. I won't

806
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 6: stop until I do, unless the door closes and something

807
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 6: else opens. And if I'm not a professional wrestler, everyone

808
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 6: needs to know I'm completely fine with it as long

809
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 6: as I'm doing things to build people up.

810
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I think you brought up a good point.

811
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 5: How I mean this applies to the music industry too,

812
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 5: But I mean, you know, these companies they want establish brands,

813
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,760
Speaker 5: they don't really wanna you know, diamond in the rough

814
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 5: mold them do all this kind of stuff.

815
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 2: Same, you know, I think that's part of why it

816
00:37:59,360 --> 00:37:59,919
Speaker 2: took so long.

817
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 5: For a j Styles to get to WWE, you know.

818
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 5: I mean he's been this good the whole time, absolutely,

819
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 5: but no one knew him, you know, so he had

820
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 5: to do the impact thing in New Japan and all

821
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 5: this kind of stuff. So by the time he came

822
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,240
Speaker 5: there and said, Bam, here, I am there on board.

823
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 5: You know, so I think that's a I mean, you're

824
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 5: absolutely right. I mean building the brand and building the message.

825
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 4: I mean, that's how you're gonna do it.

826
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 6: You got to. You got to because you got to

827
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,280
Speaker 6: show that you really want it. There's there's very little

828
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 6: people that succeed with the work involved. It just doesn't

829
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 6: happen anymore. You have to put the hard work in

830
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 6: so people see that you really want it. You have

831
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 6: to learn to respect the business so people see that

832
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 6: you really want it. Me, if I were to go

833
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 6: into an interview for Wrestling and I know him to

834
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 6: be in the room with fifty other incredible talented people,

835
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 6: I want to make sure when I go in front

836
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 6: of WWE, All Elite Wrestling, Ring of Honor, New Japan, Wrestling,

837
00:38:56,040 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 6: Southern Underground Pro, Southern Underground Pro, I carry every single

838
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,879
Speaker 6: promotion on my back in the ring, outside the ring,

839
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 6: daily life, dad, husband, everything. If I go anywhere, I

840
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 6: want to be able to tell them that I gave

841
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,479
Speaker 6: it all up for wrestling. No matter what, I'm willing

842
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:12,919
Speaker 6: to give it all up as long as it doesn't

843
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 6: ruin my character, me being a husband, me being a dad,

844
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 6: and I can stay consistent to my message. I'm willing

845
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 6: to do it all. And it's like I want to

846
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 6: be able to go in a room full of all

847
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,439
Speaker 6: these other applicants. That's what you need to be able

848
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 6: to do now. They need to know that you're willing

849
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 6: to do it all.

850
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 4: Yeah.

851
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 6: You know, so those years on the road, those years

852
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 6: setting up tearing down rings, I love it all, you know,

853
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 6: meeting people in all the cities and stuff. It's just

854
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,399
Speaker 6: been an incredible journey that taught me so much about

855
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,919
Speaker 6: the wrestling business. I wouldn't want it any other way.

856
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 6: And like I said again, everyone's journey is different. Some

857
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 6: one might get signed them around never wrestled the day

858
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 6: in their life. You know, by the time I get signed,

859
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 6: I might have already had three surgeries, packed up all

860
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 6: my family. Maybe I've gone broke. But as long as

861
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 6: I can get this message out I really don't care.

862
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 6: And my wife's behind it, and she's the Boss's amazing

863
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 6: because if she wasn't behind us this, this train wouldn't

864
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 6: be moving, you know. So my wife right now is

865
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 6: working a full time job to support me for this

866
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,240
Speaker 6: message so I can make it in the wrestling business.

867
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:14,919
Speaker 6: And it's just crazy, you know, because my wife didn't

868
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 6: want to do that. She never thought that she would

869
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 6: have a guy walking around his clothes off, you know, wrestling,

870
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 6: getting sweaty with guys in a ring, having kids to

871
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 6: take pictures. No woman. I don't want to say no women,

872
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:26,919
Speaker 6: but that's the last thing a woman wants to hear

873
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 6: from their husband. Five years into a marriage. And my

874
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:32,399
Speaker 6: wife just she's a boss. She owned it, she's seen

875
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 6: the value in it, she's seen the message. She's awesome.

876
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 6: So it's been awesome. It's been great.

877
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,720
Speaker 2: You know, you kind of touched on your home base

878
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 2: being with SUP and how did how did that happen?

879
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,240
Speaker 2: How did you get involved with some of the underground.

880
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 6: Pro Well, you know, right place, right time. I think

881
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 6: going there and being teachable and showing up to help out.

882
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,839
Speaker 6: I think that's one of the biggest things. I look

883
00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 6: at the roster and look at the the I want

884
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 6: to say core people there, but there's a little bit

885
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 6: of a core people that suck that make it sup

886
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 6: as far as the wrestlers that come in from different places,

887
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 6: and I see how they got in and they'll showed

888
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 6: to help out, you know, like you gotta be willing

889
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,399
Speaker 6: to do that. You got to be willing to put

890
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 6: your pride down and just be willing to just take

891
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,359
Speaker 6: orders from others and want to learn more and make

892
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 6: the business better. But realistically, I was getting trained by

893
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 6: carry offfl Kevin Ku through Crux and it was just

894
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 6: one of those things where that first match had to

895
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 6: happen because my first match ever was at Southern under

896
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 6: Ground Pro. I mean, this is like the my full

897
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 6: comic book is there. It's gonna be the Birth, the Death,

898
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 6: the Reserra, everything is in Southern on a Ground Pro.

899
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 6: And it means so much to me that they even

900
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 6: gave me that because having a spot at Southern under

901
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 6: Ground Pro. I think because I think it's probably top

902
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 6: five promotions in the country. I know it's newer, so

903
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 6: people are kind of still trying to get their feet

904
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 6: wet with it, but what it offers and the talent

905
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 6: it has in the area it has, I think it's

906
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 6: one of the best in the country. But just to

907
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 6: have a spot there, it's just a blessing. I love

908
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 6: all the people that run it, all the people that

909
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:11,399
Speaker 6: come in for it, and I just love Brick Nation

910
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 6: in Nashville. It's been so good to me. If it

911
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 6: wasn't for Brick Nation in Nashville, I would be nothing

912
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 6: at sothern Underground Pro.

913
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's a it's a different atmosphere there.

914
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 4: I've been.

915
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 5: I think I've missed like two shows just because I

916
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 5: was out of town. But I mean, it's just the

917
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 5: Basement East is just the perfect venue for it, and

918
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 5: it just it's it's wild. So, speaking of that, you

919
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 5: guys had a match during WrestleMania weekend in New York.

920
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 5: Tell us about the match and what that experience was

921
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,240
Speaker 5: like during that you know, very busy weekend for wrestling.

922
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 6: It was it was It's the highlight of my career

923
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 6: right now. I know I'm a younger wrestler and I

924
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 6: have a younger career, but it was a highlight of

925
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 6: my career because we had the opportunity and again, let's

926
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 6: just go back to me even getting that spot. So

927
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 6: I've been really new to the business. I've been wrestling

928
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 6: for about a year. I've had thirty matches for me

929
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 6: to get us by the Southern Underground Protogo represent them.

930
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 6: Like I said, if it wasn't for Brick Nation in

931
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 6: Nashville and then just constantly getting behind me and just

932
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 6: building me up and I was building each other up,

933
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 6: I don't think I've ever would have got that. So

934
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 6: I think it's just it was just a bunch of

935
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 6: things coming together and going out there to represent Southern

936
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 6: Underground Pro to show the world what we are. That's

937
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 6: what meant the most to me, you know, having the

938
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:32,240
Speaker 6: guys Osha and Bandman Dam by my side, I wouldn't

939
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 6: want it any other way. And we got a chance

940
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 6: to display what we have out here in Nashville and

941
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 6: let the world and we put the world on notice

942
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 6: like what we have going on here is special and

943
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 6: no matter what organization tries to come through here, it

944
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 6: will never be what Southern Underground Pro is. So we're

945
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 6: just I was just grateful to be there and grateful

946
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 6: to be around such incredible people and learn from all

947
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 6: of them on both sides and just just be at

948
00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 6: the collective, you know, game change in wrestling and independent Wrestling,

949
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:04,240
Speaker 6: Dot TV and and all the other promotions and getting

950
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 6: a chance to network with everybody, and it just it

951
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 6: was a it was a it was a game changer

952
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:10,479
Speaker 6: for me for sure, man.

953
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 2: And it's you know, I kind of saw some highlights.

954
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,799
Speaker 2: Jesse tweeted some stuff out once again, phenomenal stuff right there,

955
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 2: and it just goes to show why they called you

956
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,920
Speaker 2: up to get in that match, and you know, just

957
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,319
Speaker 2: it's amazing to see that match you up in New

958
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,400
Speaker 2: York during the biggest time in wrestling.

959
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, and and and like I said, it's it's one

960
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 6: of the things about being ready. You never know when

961
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 6: your number is gonna get called. And I think that's

962
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 6: why it's so important to stay training through the week

963
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 6: in the ring. I think wrestlers constantly should be training.

964
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 6: And I've been banged up a little bit so I've

965
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 6: not done as much, but staying in the gym and

966
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 6: eating healthy and constantly feeding your mind the right stuff whatever.

967
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:47,839
Speaker 6: That is different for each of us, but our minds

968
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 6: are factories and everything we put into it grows, So

969
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 6: you constantly want to be just learning the craft and

970
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:56,760
Speaker 6: the business is always changing, you know, So for wrestling

971
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 6: to me is I just always want to be like

972
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,399
Speaker 6: Lex even Tommy, this is like just stay ready. If

973
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 6: you stay ready or never, you know. And I'm just

974
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 6: trying to stay ready with the million things going on

975
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 6: in life and all the obligations and you know, family

976
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 6: and and whatnot, and just enjoying it. You know. I

977
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 6: love the people. I love the people. Me and my

978
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 6: dad were always into interesting types of people. I think

979
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 6: wrestling brings out the best in people interestingly, like man,

980
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 6: like I'm from playing has Fit toys, so you know,

981
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:38,280
Speaker 6: if you got a flavor. So the wrestling business is cool,

982
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 6: and I just love all the different types of characters.

983
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 6: And it's just been just being up in New York

984
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 6: was awesome. I got a chance to you know, help

985
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 6: out work for some promotions, you know, and just kind

986
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 6: of just just be there and listen and learn from

987
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 6: from the best in the world. And you know, basically

988
00:45:56,520 --> 00:46:00,120
Speaker 6: a majority of of everyone or anybody was in that building.

989
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 6: So I got a chance to meet the Rock and

990
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 6: Roll Express, got a chance to meet Orange Cassidy, got

991
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 6: a chance to you know, hang out with the AIW

992
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 6: guys AIW all day you know the Cleveland boys are family,

993
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:19,399
Speaker 6: you know Thorn and Bishop Maserati West and all those

994
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:24,319
Speaker 6: guys out there Dome. Yeah, Falor knows the their family man.

995
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 6: So like Cleveland's what's up? So I just I got

996
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 6: a chance just to finally just embrace people that I love.

997
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 6: I think that's the best way to say it.

998
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 2: Here. It is right there, our guest right now, mister

999
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 2: Brickser is hanging out in the studio. You know, we've

1000
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 2: asked a couple of guests here recently. With AW finally

1001
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 2: announcing their TV deal with T and T. What do

1002
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:45,240
Speaker 2: you think their chances of survival are this go around?

1003
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 2: With Ted Turner back in the wrestling business.

1004
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 6: I love it. I love it. I love them, you know,

1005
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 6: I love what they're doing. I'm an entertainer, right, I'm

1006
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 6: a wrestler, but I'm an entertainer. I'm into pop culture.

1007
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:04,320
Speaker 6: I'm into events. I try to go to all events.

1008
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 6: I try to. I'm sponsored by some clothing lines. I'm

1009
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 6: all elite. Wrestling is a lifestyle. It's going places. It's

1010
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 6: cigar events, it's music events. It's constantly wearing the brand

1011
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:20,840
Speaker 6: on your back. It's uh, it's it's style. It's fashion,

1012
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,319
Speaker 6: it's drama, so everything that all elite wrestling is is

1013
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 6: basically me. That's what I can say with the whole

1014
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 6: TV deal. I think it's incredible. I think it's a

1015
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 6: great time for wrestling. I think it gives people more

1016
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 6: opportunity because all these rosters have to be stacked. I

1017
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 6: think it's going to be interesting how they compete and

1018
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 6: interesting how they you know, kind of start telling their

1019
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 6: stories because they're having a lot of you know, overseas

1020
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 6: performers and such. But I think it's awesome because I

1021
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 6: love I love that art, and I'm excited to see

1022
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 6: what they do and I'm hope I'm hoping to be

1023
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 6: working with them in the future.

1024
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's cool too because they've talked to

1025
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 5: about the way I've heard it, it's almost like like

1026
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 5: a fantasy football kind of a deal where they're gonna, like,

1027
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 5: you know, put stats up so you get a certain

1028
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 5: amount of stats for wins and losses and you know,

1029
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 5: finishing move you got the pin from this, and and

1030
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 5: I think they're, you know, they're really gonna do it

1031
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 5: more of a sport focus and not the you know,

1032
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 5: soap opera thing. So yeah, I'm actually going to Double

1033
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 5: Nothing next week, so I'm pretty stoked. What they There's

1034
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 5: a new Southern Underground show coming up June second, do

1035
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 5: you want to touch on that?

1036
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I'll just go back to like all Elite

1037
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 6: wrestling real quick. So one thing also that I love

1038
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:43,240
Speaker 6: about them is that it's it's something that they value

1039
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 6: as family. They value you know, not working you have

1040
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 6: three hundred days a week and stuff like that, and

1041
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:50,839
Speaker 6: if you're any man like that's cool because holidays are fun.

1042
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 6: So I also like that about them, and I know

1043
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 6: that they're going to be taking care of their employees.

1044
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 6: They have really good backing, they have really good credibility,

1045
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,760
Speaker 6: and for what they had as far as the brand

1046
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 6: that they have, the equity that they have and that

1047
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:08,359
Speaker 6: people invested with only having one show, it's crazy yeah, yeah,

1048
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 6: I mean crazy.

1049
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, to have a billion dollar backer and then have

1050
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 5: you know TNT, which obviously used to carry WCW back

1051
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:19,439
Speaker 5: in the day, and like you said, you know, talking

1052
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:22,400
Speaker 5: about less working days and also trying to do healthcare

1053
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:23,240
Speaker 5: and all that kind of stuff.

1054
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 4: I mean, they're they're already, in.

1055
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,879
Speaker 5: My opinion, light years ahead of what most companies are

1056
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:28,800
Speaker 5: at the starting point.

1057
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 6: Absolutely, so I'm I'm I'm definitely you know, I'm really

1058
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 6: excited about that. And like I said, hopefully I'll be

1059
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,839
Speaker 6: working with them in the future. You know, I think

1060
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 6: my brand would go very good with what they're looking

1061
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 6: to do. And yeah, I mean I was only a

1062
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 6: part of one of their plays, which is cool. It's

1063
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:49,240
Speaker 6: good enough for me. Hopefully we'll have more more stuff

1064
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:49,840
Speaker 6: in the future.

1065
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:54,320
Speaker 4: Awesome. Yeah.

1066
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:57,240
Speaker 5: On June second, we got another show at the Basement East.

1067
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 5: Are you partaking in that? I know the last were

1068
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 5: allowed to talk about this. I told you after the

1069
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 5: last show was bummed because you got injured right at

1070
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 5: the Yeah.

1071
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.

1072
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 6: Uh, you know, Brick Nations just the past couple of

1073
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 6: months had a lot of steam and it started up

1074
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 6: in New York and it kind of started coming down

1075
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 6: over here and into Georgia and sci and everything, and

1076
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:25,400
Speaker 6: we were we were on a roll. We were on

1077
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 6: a roll, and then a couple of guys came out

1078
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:31,800
Speaker 6: and they decided to start being cheap start you know, uh,

1079
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 6: basically went for my knees and for a couple of weeks,

1080
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 6: all these dudes kept trying to jack up my knees.

1081
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Speaker 6: So it's not one hundred. I'm actually a pt right

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00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:41,919
Speaker 6: now for it. I will be there June second, though,

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00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 6: Oh don't worry about that.

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00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 2: Just called the shot right there, will be there June second.

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00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:50,840
Speaker 2: Mister Bricks's gonna be other underground pro be there.

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00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 3: He's gonna be announce.

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00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:54,839
Speaker 2: He's gonna be at the Beast. Now, speaking of announcements,

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00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 2: where can.

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00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:57,720
Speaker 3: People keep up with you online? What's the best place?

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00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 6: Awesome? So basically mister Brickster on Twitter with two rs.

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00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 6: The thing was that since I'm pretty I'm pretty new

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00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 6: to the business. I started Twitter pretty late, so I

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00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 6: use a lot of Instagram as my handle. So that's

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00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 6: kind of where I do a lot of my stories

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00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 6: and stuff. That's mister underscore Brickster built like bricks dot com.

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00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 6: I do schools, I speak to kids regarding my lego

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00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 6: message and bringing people together. I do events. Obviously, you

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00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 6: could book me for wrestling, So those are kind of

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00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:34,319
Speaker 6: all the ways you can get in touch with me

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00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:38,240
Speaker 6: or Facebook. Ricky Perillo I do that too, whatever's.

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00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 3: The easiest there it is.

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00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:42,280
Speaker 2: Anything you need to get in contact with mister Brickster

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00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:44,279
Speaker 2: is right there. And of course we'll throw up a

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00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:46,839
Speaker 2: link once this is posted of where else you could

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00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 2: stay up to date with mister Brickster. But dude, sitting

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00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,920
Speaker 2: here for the past thirty minutes hearing your story, I

1107
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,879
Speaker 2: feel like I'm hyped up for the week. I'm ready

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00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,479
Speaker 2: to run through a brick wall, no pun intended, and

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00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 2: just hearing your story, man, and it's awesome to hear

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00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 2: the stuff, dude.

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00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 6: I really appreciate it. Man, thank you so much for

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00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:06,320
Speaker 6: having me. I appreciate you guys, and just want to

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00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:08,760
Speaker 6: leave everyone one last thing. Just know that, guys, people

1114
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,279
Speaker 6: are one word, one sentence away from changing their life,

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00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 6: and you have the ability to do it. So just

1116
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 6: go out encourage people, tell them to love them, change

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00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 6: the world.

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00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 2: Brick by brick, I don't even have to say anything

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00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:20,880
Speaker 2: else such to that's it.

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00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 4: That's it right there.

1121
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 3: That's it.

1122
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 4: That's how we'll end it.

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00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:23,879
Speaker 5: That's it.

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00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 3: Man, Such a cool guy right there.

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00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 2: I feel like I could literally run through a wall

1126
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,919
Speaker 2: right now just listening to Brickster talk for the entire time.

1127
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 4: I want to go update my wardrobe.

1128
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,319
Speaker 2: And his son is more styling than both of us.

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00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 4: Come by, Valor is the man. It was a cool

1130
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 4: hang so.

1131
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,239
Speaker 2: Man, so definitely check him out. They're going to be

1132
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 2: over at the Basement East. I believe what that shows

1133
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 2: second June second, so make sure we'll put a link

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00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 2: where you can get tickets and get all the information.

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00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 1: Uh.

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00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 2: Next week there is a big event happening Saturday at

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00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 2: the fair Grounds June first. It is Farewell to the

1138
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 2: fair Fairgrounds, Overdrive and House of Hardcore Presents. And of

1139
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 2: course there's a guy on the card and he goes

1140
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:08,360
Speaker 2: by the name of Tommy Dreamer, but we also know

1141
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 2: him as the King of Extreme which.

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00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 3: Actually I'm not gonna say nothing. We'll just let you

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00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 3: figure out.

1144
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 2: Next week Tommy Dreamer is gonna be on the show

1145
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 2: there it is so And also next week there will

1146
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 2: be a new hopefully fingers crossed, a new announcement for

1147
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 2: a new championship title which we'll be on the line

1148
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 2: twenty four to seven.

1149
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 4: Hope, so hope.

1150
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 2: So So anyways, make sure you subscribe to the podcast,

1151
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:34,760
Speaker 2: give us five stars, leave us a nice little review.

1152
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 2: Follow us on social media. You can get everything Instagram.

1153
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 2: We are Battleground Podcast. That's where you get all the details.

1154
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:44,360
Speaker 2: Eli's got his podcast as well, which is Music City Horror,

1155
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:46,400
Speaker 2: Go give them a like and follow it as well.

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Speaker 3: Until next week, We'll talk to you guys later Leader