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Speaker 1: This is Rocky Asuka Romeo of New Japan par Wrestling

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Speaker 1: m JPW Strong Talking Shop, and you are listening and

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Speaker 1: watching the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Why from the Parts Unknown Studios to the Battle Crown,

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Speaker 2: the battle Bound, the Battle Crowd. Welcome to the Battleground Podcast,

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Speaker 2: your place for all things pro wrestling, the Battle Road,

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Speaker 2: the Battle Round.

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Speaker 1: Now making their way to the microphones giving up for

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Speaker 1: your host. Welcome to the Battle Crown.

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Speaker 2: What's up you guys?

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to another episode of the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving week and a lot of things to be thankful for.

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Speaker 3: We've been doing the show for what almost two three years,

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Speaker 3: give or take a little over three years, and I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna go ahead to bring up my tag team partner, thankful

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Speaker 3: to have along the ride of this podcast journey with.

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Speaker 2: Us and uh Man.

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Speaker 3: It's it's crazy how this has turned from just doing

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Speaker 3: this in the studio once a week to be in

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Speaker 3: a home studio now and doing video.

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Speaker 2: It's wild how things have changed.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're a couple months away from three years. It

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Speaker 4: is wild, and you started it before me, so technically

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Speaker 4: a little bit longer. But me and the Me and

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Speaker 4: You tag team are heading into about three years so.

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Speaker 3: And when you look back at like the old episodes,

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Speaker 3: like sitting here thinking about it, like the very first

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Speaker 3: guest we ever had is your new aw champion hang

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Speaker 3: Man at him page, And then you look at like

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Speaker 3: other guests and it was like, uh, Bob Saggett and

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Speaker 3: just it's just all over the place. And then now

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Speaker 3: we went to wrestling, and uh, well, let's go ahead

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Speaker 3: and bring in our guests. A guy that's like I

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Speaker 3: don't think he ever gets to sleep, Let's bring him in.

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Speaker 2: Rocky merylnd joins the show.

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Speaker 1: Rocket, thanks for having me, gentlemen. Happy Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 3: Happy Thanksgiving to you. Yeah, it's it's crazy because we

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Speaker 3: were sitting here thinking about it, and uh like, uh,

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Speaker 3: I want to say, possibly one of the last in

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Speaker 3: in town and it was you and Finn Juice and

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Speaker 3: in New Japan show here in Nashville.

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Speaker 2: That was right before COVID hit.

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Speaker 1: I know what, looking back at it now, it's like, WHOA,

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Speaker 1: what happened? Right, like world nobody was expecting the whorld

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Speaker 1: probably my last in studio interview too as well.

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Speaker 4: Really yeah, and it feels like five years ago, like

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Speaker 4: so much crap has happened, like, oh my gosh.

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Speaker 3: We we kind of sat here and thought about that,

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Speaker 3: and it's like we've had a couple here and there,

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Speaker 3: new normal of you do these interviews where you roll

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Speaker 3: into town and even though you're in town, you're doing

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Speaker 1: From a from a hotel room or something.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure. And we sit back and think

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Speaker 3: Like we I go back and look at that, uh,

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Speaker 3: that show that y'all had in Nashville, and it was

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Speaker 3: at like three o'clock in the afternoon. Yeah, weren't taken

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Speaker 3: You weren't taking up all your day. And I want

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Speaker 3: it's you and Finju's versus g D was there and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to go back to Nashville. I'm like

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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you and and Eli Eli's been to

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Speaker 3: Like there there's not the the hoop law, there's not

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Speaker 1: Uh, you know, you're gonna get good matches, you're gonna

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Speaker 4: I think that's why a lot of companies like New

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Speaker 1: guys are talking about Hangman Page. You know, he just

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Speaker 4: Well. And if this was done by someone whose name

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Speaker 4: I mean, you don't need a lot to make the

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Speaker 4: It is unbelievable. A buddy of mine, actually, Garrett, He's

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Speaker 4: So that's my next that's my next trip. I'm like,

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Speaker 4: I got to do that at some point.

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Speaker 3: So and of course you're gonna have to do it

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Speaker 2: We'll talk about that later in the show. Okay.

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Speaker 3: But so, I mean, it's kind of an interesting thing

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Speaker 3: every time the f abidden door is talking, somehow Rocky's

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Speaker 1: It through you?

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Speaker 1: I am the keyholder. I am the like what's the ghostbuster?

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Speaker 3: And I sit here and watch these interviews with Tony

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Speaker 3: and he's like, yeah, I've been with Rocky about this

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Speaker 4: Hear my good brothers on twice and they're like, we'll

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Speaker 4: talk to Rocky. We'll get it. You know, like you

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Speaker 1: I mean, like I don't really know how much I

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Speaker 2: Graphics, we need everybody post this no.

436
00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:59,439
Speaker 1: I like when they started talking about the about the

437
00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:02,120
Speaker 1: press conf the dual press conference and the same time,

438
00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:04,120
Speaker 1: then I was like, that's kind of what I heard about.

439
00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:06,480
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, wait, what's going on? We're doing what?

440
00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:08,639
Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, that's pretty cool. You know, that

441
00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,679
Speaker 1: was completely out of left field talk about for Forbidden Doors,

442
00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,520
Speaker 1: you know, like, oh, there was a lot of uh

443
00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,080
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of tension between both companies, uh,

444
00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,239
Speaker 1: you know since the last time they worked together. So

445
00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,880
Speaker 1: but I mean, obviously Noah has had so many changes backstage,

446
00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,560
Speaker 1: you know, completely different people you know now now heading Noah,

447
00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:34,919
Speaker 1: so you know, and and people that are familiar with uh,

448
00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:37,000
Speaker 1: you know, the New Japan side of things, so you

449
00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:40,840
Speaker 1: know former uh former you know, office workers that used

450
00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,280
Speaker 1: to work in New Japan on now heading Noah. So

451
00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:45,560
Speaker 1: I mean it kind of makes sense on a lot

452
00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:49,800
Speaker 1: of levels. And obviously Japanese wrestling has been through the

453
00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,880
Speaker 1: ringer the last two years with COVID and everything, so uh,

454
00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,440
Speaker 1: it makes sense on both ends, you know, to work

455
00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,520
Speaker 1: together in some kind of way and do something really

456
00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:02,080
Speaker 1: cool for the fans, especially going into next year where

457
00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,919
Speaker 1: it looks very likely that a lot of the restrictions

458
00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,040
Speaker 1: are gonna, you know, start to get lifted. So why

459
00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,800
Speaker 1: not kick off you know, the new year with with

460
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,280
Speaker 1: a bang and you know, New Japan versus knowing like

461
00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 1: some dream matches maybe that we've never seen before, you

462
00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,840
Speaker 1: given them. Just everybody being under one roof, uh, you know,

463
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:21,640
Speaker 1: is really cool.

464
00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,840
Speaker 4: Well, and then with the history between specifically Muda from

465
00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,040
Speaker 4: New Japan to No I mean that alone is an

466
00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:30,000
Speaker 4: intriguing story. But then you have, like you said, I

467
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,919
Speaker 4: mean just a who's who of dream matches my Fuji.

468
00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:35,600
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, I mean, like they know he's got

469
00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:37,520
Speaker 4: some really good young talent right now. So I mean

470
00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,560
Speaker 4: it's just there you could have their young ones against

471
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,600
Speaker 4: the older New Japan, younger New Japan against their older ones.

472
00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:45,040
Speaker 4: I mean it's just I mean, you know, you have

473
00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,120
Speaker 4: freaking Jay White against Great MOODA Rocky against Great Mood.

474
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 4: I mean there's so many matches you could come up with.

475
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:52,439
Speaker 1: I want to I want to get that phone call

476
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,399
Speaker 1: and be like, yeah, Rocky, you're wrestling the great mooda

477
00:21:55,640 --> 00:22:01,040
Speaker 1: you know, no pressure, and so we feel like this

478
00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:02,240
Speaker 1: is your this is your time.

479
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:04,480
Speaker 4: That was warm up, here's the real dance.

480
00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,239
Speaker 3: How many times can you get the miss that night

481
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:09,240
Speaker 3: during the match, because you're just.

482
00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,879
Speaker 1: Keep bringing I'll just keep kicking out.

483
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:15,120
Speaker 3: Just let's have every color you could think of mud

484
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:16,639
Speaker 3: and just go with the miss and we'll just go

485
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 3: to the entire day.

486
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he's down with the purple missed.

487
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 4: What does that mean?

488
00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:21,400
Speaker 1: I have no idea.

489
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:22,800
Speaker 4: You're like a rainbow.

490
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,480
Speaker 2: Just that amazing Stu.

491
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Speaker 3: And speaking of amazing stuff, let's let's kind of talk

492
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Speaker 3: about the We're gonna kind of jump out of wrestling

493
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:33,680
Speaker 3: and talk about something else real quick.

494
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,119
Speaker 2: The music man talk about the music.

495
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 1: I've been dropping a lot of songs. I like, there

496
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:40,959
Speaker 1: are a lot of songs that I've been working on

497
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,600
Speaker 1: or had kind of like, you know, I just unreleased,

498
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,640
Speaker 1: but I've been working on him when I had time.

499
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,680
Speaker 1: And then I mean, obviously the last you know, month

500
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:54,320
Speaker 1: has been extremely crazy. Travelis but yeah, especially like during

501
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:55,760
Speaker 1: my last time that I went over to Japan, I

502
00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 1: did a quarantine, so like, I really put a lot

503
00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,640
Speaker 1: of effort, you know, in those fourteen days into doing

504
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,199
Speaker 1: a bunch of songs and stuff. So I'm gonna be

505
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 1: releasing them kind of like every other week, every three weeks.

506
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 1: I got I got one with with Trey Miguel that

507
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,360
Speaker 1: I want to put out next, which is pretty dope.

508
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:14,160
Speaker 1: He's an exceptional rapper really, yeah.

509
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 3: He's very And here's the thing, he's like, I didn't

510
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 3: know he was a rapper, so I mean.

511
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:20,639
Speaker 1: It's I I don't consider myself a rapper. I just

512
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 1: like to make music, but like he's an actual like

513
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:26,679
Speaker 1: he can actually rap. He can really Yeah, really, are.

514
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 3: You gonna be doing anything with any recently free agent

515
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 3: Swerve anytimes?

516
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 1: It's a possibility because the last time I saw a

517
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 1: Swerve was not that long ago, and uh, and we

518
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 1: had talked about maybe doing some music, So yeah, I

519
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,400
Speaker 1: would love to do something with Sorf. I think he's

520
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 1: just super talent to do. I don't understand how WW

521
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 1: could let somebody go like that. I mean, he's super talented,

522
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,720
Speaker 1: fantastic wrestler. That's somebody who I would love to see

523
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,200
Speaker 1: on New Japan Strong uh you know, and head over

524
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,240
Speaker 1: to Japan one day and and you know you do

525
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,200
Speaker 1: a super Junior or something like that, because that dude

526
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 1: super talented. I mean obviously we just had Jonah formerly

527
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 1: Brons and Reid. Yeah yeah, come out for for our

528
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,159
Speaker 1: New Japan show Battle in the Valley, which you can

529
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,680
Speaker 1: still check out on Fight TV or New Japan World.

530
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 1: And then of course Buddy Matthews, you know as well

531
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 1: just wrestling Okata. I mean just the thrown rate right

532
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,120
Speaker 1: to the biggest guy of them all.

533
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,120
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, go, I mean, what's a dream match

534
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:25,719
Speaker 4: for Matthews. I don't know what about Okada?

535
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:31,400
Speaker 1: Like yeah, oh yeah, yeah, that'll be good. So so yeah,

536
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's such a shame that they're

537
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: letting go, you know, such great talent, but you know

538
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 1: it's great for a w New Japan and some of

539
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,119
Speaker 1: these other organizations, even the indies in general, which I

540
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,040
Speaker 1: feel like I have a lot of young talent but

541
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,399
Speaker 1: are missing some of these names because everybody's kind of

542
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,400
Speaker 1: like you know, went to these bigger companies, so they're

543
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 1: not completely available. So now I mean, like the indies

544
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 1: are going to get, you know, some really awesome talent,

545
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,680
Speaker 1: which is is just going to help the overall professional

546
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 1: wrestling world absolutely.

547
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 4: What are do you have a just off the top

548
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:06,639
Speaker 4: of your head, or there are a couple you know,

549
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 4: indie guys or girls or tag teams or whatever that

550
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 4: are standing out to you that are like maybe they

551
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 4: haven't wrestled for New Japan yet that you like, we

552
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 4: got to get them in a ring. I mean, what

553
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 4: what do you look for in in indie talent? Is

554
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 4: it name recognition? Is it just positive attitude? Good work? Right?

555
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 4: Like what is it goes into it?

556
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 1: I mean name recognition is always good in the fact

557
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: of like if you're making a splash, that's and people

558
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: want to see you, right, I mean like like that's

559
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 1: I mean, we're we're still in the business of you know,

560
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: selling tickets and you know, selling pay per views and

561
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,880
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Yeah, I mean that's the important part too.

562
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 1: So like people who are making a splash, whether it

563
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,479
Speaker 1: be in like GCW, you know who I think you know,

564
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 1: GSW has a great finger on the pulse of like

565
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,640
Speaker 1: who the next person is, so like definitely they're there.

566
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 1: They're a company that I watch quite a bit and

567
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 1: we've worked you know, quite a bit with them, you know,

568
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 1: with sending Suzuki there, do some more stuff pre.

569
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 4: He had a crazy summer.

570
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, he had a great summary. Right, Yeah, we're gonna

571
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: do more stuff with them, you know, sending talent like

572
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 1: Shingo was signed up to do some stuff with them,

573
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 1: maybe a weekend that had gotten canceled you know, two

574
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:14,119
Speaker 1: years ago or whatever. So so yeah, I mean, I mean,

575
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 1: it really doesn't matter like what your background is or

576
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 1: where you're from. But if you're making a splash and

577
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 1: and and you know you've got something that people want

578
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 1: to see, I think that that's that's the number one thing.

579
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 1: And then the second thing is obviously the in ring

580
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: ability because you have to i mean, New Japan, you

581
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 1: can't be a slouch. You know, you've got to be

582
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 1: you know, you got to have your basics down, you

583
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 1: got to have uh, you know, you got to be

584
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,880
Speaker 1: able to put on a match and hang with honestly

585
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 1: with you know, some of the best athletes in professional wrestling.

586
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 1: So I mean, even like our young lions you know

587
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,880
Speaker 1: from the La Dojo, Shabata has done an incredible job

588
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 1: with those guys. They're all studs. And uh, you know

589
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 1: they and they work super hard, so you got to

590
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: at least, you know, you got to be able to

591
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 1: to keep up with them, at least you know.

592
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 4: Yeah for sure, I mean, and the roster with New

593
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,479
Speaker 4: Japan has there's usually like the A plus's and then

594
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 4: a minus. I mean that you don't have a lot

595
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 4: of C D F I mean the talent, but.

596
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,640
Speaker 1: Not many of them. And even our c's I would

597
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,199
Speaker 1: feel like our c's and ds you know within New

598
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 1: Japan are like in Ring are still like you know

599
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: b's and in other places.

600
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 4: Yeah, so so they may be an A with Vince,

601
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 4: but they're not.

602
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: Right right, And that's the cool thing about New Japan too,

603
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: is like, uh, you know, such a great eye for talent.

604
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 1: You know, they can literally take somebody who didn't quite

605
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 1: get their fair share you know or fair crack and

606
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: ww and where you're like you didn't even know that

607
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 1: they were a good wrestler because they never got the

608
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 1: opportunity to do it, and then they come to New

609
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: Japan and like just make a huge splash, you know,

610
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: and uh like like given somebody like Fred Rosser who like.

611
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 4: Uh he's been killing who.

612
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 1: Is known yet formerly known as Darren Young. I mean

613
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,120
Speaker 1: like like obviously, you know, Fred did some really great

614
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 1: things with Nexus and you know, prime time players and

615
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 1: stuff like that, but like you never really got to

616
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 1: see him shine because you've never really got the opportunity

617
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 1: to throw down, you know, with somebody like Tom Lawler

618
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 1: for thirty minutes, you know, or something like that. So

619
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: like that's kind of the cool thing to see him

620
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 1: really shine, you know in a new japan ring.

621
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 2: Oh for sure. And something.

622
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,199
Speaker 3: This is the fun part of the show where we

623
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 3: get to take where people get to chime in and

624
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 3: ask fan questions. So listeners of the show, we let

625
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,199
Speaker 3: people know that you're gonna come on the show and

626
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 3: we grabbed a question and this is gonna be a

627
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 3: fun one thing, especially for us as well, because we

628
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 3: want to know this.

629
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 2: They want to know.

630
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 3: About your time as Black Tiger. You wrestled under the

631
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 3: legendary mask at one point. Can you give us a

632
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 3: little insight on into how you became this bestowed with

633
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 3: this character? Uh?

634
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't. So yeah, I just remember I mean,

635
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: like getting the call initially, I think it was like

636
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 1: Simon or Nok or something like they called me and

637
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:00,080
Speaker 1: we're like, hey, so yeah, New Japan wants you to

638
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: become Black Tiger, and I was like, okay again it

639
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 1: was another rocky moment, like oh meat Rocky. Yeah yeah,

640
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: so and I was like, well, I mean, obviously that

641
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: means a lot because you think about who's been Black Tiger,

642
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: you know, Roller Mark Rocco, h Eddie Guerrero, obviously, you

643
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: know Silver King, and then I was the fourth incarnation. Yeah,

644
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys who have done a lot because

645
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: there's me so uh so yeah, I mean honest, like

646
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 1: just like and especially being young. I think it was

647
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: like twenty two or twenty three or something, so like

648
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 1: waiting for my big break. This one of those moments

649
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: where you're like waiting for like a really big break

650
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: and then here is one that's like literally just handed

651
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: to you because all you got to do is put

652
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: this mask on it, and the characters already there's a

653
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: story built in for it, you know, so you know,

654
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: so like and then what better to do it? You know,

655
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: I'm I'm going across to battle across with you know,

656
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: Tiger Mask four, who's like the junior Ace at the time,

657
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: you know, so the whole division is built around him.

658
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: So here I come, I'm like, well, I guess I'm

659
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: the top heel now, yeah, like me and Liger are

660
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 1: the top heels, you know, like it's crazy so uh

661
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean like and then just to fast forward,

662
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: just to get the opportunity to do that, I mean

663
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: that I was absously like a huge step forward in

664
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: my career, you know, as a young man. And then

665
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: you know, like it was all surreal, Like the day

666
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,959
Speaker 1: that we did a we did a show in like Milan, Italy,

667
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: like a New Japan show like rent, Like I don't know,

668
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,719
Speaker 1: there's like an Italian promoter and like I wasn't supposed

669
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: to go, and Aoki like invited me out to repunk

670
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: you one night and he was basically like, are you

671
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: going to Italy? And I was like no. He's like,

672
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: you're one of the best wrestlers in our company who

673
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 1: were drinking of course, and I was like, you're one

674
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: of the best wrestlers in our company. I was like

675
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: I am, and he was like, I want you to.

676
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: I think you should be in Italy. So I went

677
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: to Italy and.

678
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 4: The man, you can't tell someone like that, no, yeah, Auto.

679
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: Bit I'm busy that Sunday, No thank you, but uh

680
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 1: but he uh he goes uh. So, so I get

681
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: booked the next thing, you know, like they're literally leaving

682
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: like two days later, and I get this phone call

683
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: from the from the office like the next morning, like

684
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: eight am, like, oh, we're gonna send uh or give

685
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: the Young Lion one of like your passport because we've

686
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: got to get you like a visa like now. So

687
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: it was like okay, So they got me like a

688
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 1: visa like twenty four hours. I don't know, you know, okay,

689
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: lot of strings. So and anyway, so I'm in Milan, Italy,

690
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: and it's me and Liger, who's a heel like literally

691
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: top two heels against Ultimore Dragon and Tiger Mask four,

692
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what is going on in my life?

693
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,959
Speaker 4: Like this is like that's one of those you can

694
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 4: pretty much quit after that, Like yeah, I'm done.

695
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: Like I I My first match ever was in front

696
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: of twenty people in a Mexican restaurant in Rialito, California,

697
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: and like ten of the people who were there was

698
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: like my friends and family. Yeah, so like I wasn't

699
00:31:58,120 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: supposed to be here, you know, like like what was

700
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: supposed to have this moment? You know, Malan nearly and

701
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: I'm like drinking wine every night and like, you know,

702
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: eating this amazing pasta dishes and seafood and it's all free.

703
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 4: You know.

704
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 2: I'm like, what is.

705
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: Going on in my life?

706
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 4: You know, like yeah, whatever.

707
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: So the pretty cool moment just to kind of take

708
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: it all in for once, you know, because sometimes you

709
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: forget to take it all in these huge moments. And

710
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: I was just like, whoa, this is really cool. Like

711
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: I'm here with the guys that I watched and idolized

712
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: for years on videotape, vhs, videotapes that I would trade

713
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: with people I know, and and here I am amongst them,

714
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: you know. So pretty cool moment.

715
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 4: And at twenty two, you kind of like you don't

716
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 4: know what you don't know, and you know, you don't

717
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 4: really know pressure and you're like, screw it, I'll do it,

718
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 4: you know, but you're like, you want me to do what?

719
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: Now?

720
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 4: You start getting little bit more conscious about that.

721
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly.

722
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 4: Well, So last time when you interviewed you Free Pandemic,

723
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 4: we had mentioned your time working with n w A

724
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 4: and your former NBA Junior waite champion. This is really

725
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 4: before talking Forbidden War started but you had been you know,

726
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 4: you mentioned you were open to work with him again,

727
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 4: and they've worked with a W and Fred Ross. He's

728
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 4: signed with NWA, but he's doing stuff with him and

729
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 4: he's done.

730
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: He just sorry, my dogs are upset because somebody opened

731
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: the front door.

732
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, or maybe they're not getting enough attention. Probably I

733
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 4: call my dog tinker Bell because if I don't give

734
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 4: him enough attention, he does.

735
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: It's basically all dogs every day. Yeah.

736
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 4: So anyway, so, now that the n w A is

737
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 4: reintroducing the title you have held, is that something you

738
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 4: wouldn't mind collecting again for your statute?

739
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: I mean, and and obviously the nw A has changed

740
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: so much since you know, the last time we spoke

741
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: as well, you know, so yeah, I really like what

742
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: Billy Corgan's doing with the n w A. I think

743
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: like the way he's reintroduced it and how he's telling

744
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: the stories, you know, with each character and each personality

745
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 1: is really cool. And uh, I think they've done a

746
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: really really, really good job of of carving out their audience.

747
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, I mean, why not add it to

748
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 1: the list of uh, you know, forbidden doors that Rocky

749
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: America could open? And you know, maybe showing up for

750
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: the and I don't know if they do a tournament

751
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: or whatever for the UH for the World Junior, but

752
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: I I feel like I could definitely be included in

753
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: in that conversation being a former champion.

754
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,800
Speaker 4: Oh for sure. And they just had a live event

755
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 4: about a month ago that I went to, and I

756
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 4: mean they're they like you said, they've really turned a corner.

757
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 4: And I mean their products awesome. They're starting to get

758
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 4: in some big names Mike Bennett, uh and.

759
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: Some stuff too.

760
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 4: Yeah. I I just remember when I was all I

761
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 4: was about to say was purple.

762
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 3: I was like, they're defending the U the R O

763
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 3: H Tag team titles on the pay per view next weekend.

764
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,959
Speaker 4: Next to Okay. Really yeah that's kind of cool.

765
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really cool.

766
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

767
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: I feel like n w A is another one that

768
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: that definitely could could take advantage of of some of

769
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: this newly released talent.

770
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 4: Uh.

771
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 1: You know, like imagine like Taya being over there, you know,

772
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: like added to the women's division or you know, and

773
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: then and Morrison as well. I mean I think, you know,

774
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 1: Morrison is also somebody that I think that could could

775
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: be really interesting to see Morrison in a New Japan

776
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: ring as well. I think I think he'd be cool,

777
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,720
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. I think both maybe style

778
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 1: or something.

779
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,280
Speaker 2: I don't know.

780
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,399
Speaker 3: If he comes there, is it, yeah, Johnny shrunk style

781
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 3: if he goes to a w is Johnny elite R?

782
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: Not my original joke, although I stole that from Chris Carlton.

783
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,320
Speaker 2: He texted that Gabe.

784
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think we're going to talk about talking shop.

785
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 2: I know how.

786
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 3: From podcaster to podcaster, is it difficult to put out

787
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 3: two episodes every week?

788
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 2: Because that's what you are doing.

789
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: Now right, No, we're not putting out two episodes. We're

790
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: putting out of v log for YouTube and uh, and

791
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: we're doing a and we well we do have a Patreon,

792
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: but usually that's only like ten minutes or so, and

793
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: that kind of follows our main show. But yeah, every

794
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: Sunday we're supposed to be dropping a show, but we're

795
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 1: all really bad at it because we're all really busy

796
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: and we all hate podcasting. Now, yeah, we loved it.

797
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: We loved it when we didn't have to do it,

798
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: and it sounded so romantic, like, oh guys, we'll get

799
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: together and we'll call each other and or we'll be

800
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 1: on the road and we'll do it. And now so

801
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: like we all hate it, yeah, every week even though

802
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: we actually do it. We have so much fun and

803
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: we love it, so it's not it's not really true,

804
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: but we just like to complain, of course, because we're wrestlers.

805
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 2: But we're the same way every time we do this.

806
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 3: We do this, we're like we're gonna take two weeks off,

807
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 3: and then it's like we're not gonna take two.

808
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: Weeks, right, right, So that yeah, just finding the time

809
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:54,280
Speaker 1: to get every you know, three really busy people together

810
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 1: to do it. It can be tough, you know, and

811
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: at least if me and Gallows can usually get it done.

812
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: But the problem is always Carl Anderson because he's got

813
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: fifty million kids. So it's really to say yes to

814
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,959
Speaker 1: certain times. But but yeah, Talking Shop is going great.

815
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: Uh you know, from the last couple of months, we've

816
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: been uh we we're on blue Wire now and they've

817
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: been super awesome to work with and uh, you know,

818
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: it's just cool. Yeah, it's going, it's going.

819
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,919
Speaker 4: Have you gotten to do the live shows too?

820
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: We started doing live shows. I think we've done about

821
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,879
Speaker 1: three of them and they've been so much fun. None

822
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: of us remember any of them.

823
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I remember the one, the one, and there

824
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 4: was one in Vegas right for the Yeact.

825
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, yep, we did one in Vegas. Uh,

826
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,839
Speaker 1: it'll probably never see the light of day because it's

827
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: just like the we had. We worked with a promoter

828
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: and the promoter was like, yeah, you know, I'd love

829
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: to put this out and blah blah blah, and so

830
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 1: we were like, yeah, well, you know, we might have

831
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: to edit. So like we got it edited down and

832
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,359
Speaker 1: then we still watched him. We're like, I don't know,

833
00:37:55,520 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: we might be so sorry guys, but uh and I'll

834
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: never see the light of day. You get you gotta

835
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 1: come and actually witness one in person. Uh if you

836
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: want to see one of these live ones, I feel

837
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 1: like because they just get too freaking rowdy. So uh

838
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 1: so yeah, sorry.

839
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:12,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were. We were.

840
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 3: We had talked to h LG about it and we

841
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:17,879
Speaker 3: were like, hey man, because he was telling us about

842
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 3: the one that they were doing in Nashville when an

843
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 3: Impact was doing the tapings.

844
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 2: I think it was Sweetwater, is that what I mean?

845
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 5: Yeah?

846
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I didn't go to that was just to

847
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: end up being just the good brothers.

848
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,359
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, and uh, because that was what we

849
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 2: asked him. I asked him.

850
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 3: I was like, is Rocky gonna be there because we

851
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 3: it's been a while since we talked to him. And

852
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 3: he's like, nah, but we'll try to fit him in

853
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 3: a suitcase or something to get him in there. And uh,

854
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 3: but yeah, I mean, he he told us about all

855
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 3: the stuff that you do, and he's like, it's unscripted there.

856
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 3: It's like we're drinking, we're having a good time. And

857
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 3: I think that's the best thing to do when you

858
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 3: do those live shows, because I've been to a couple

859
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 3: of these live podcast tapings. I went to one where

860
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 3: it was Conrad and Tony Shavanni doing one at Zany's

861
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 3: in Nashville, or no, it was it was Read and

862
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 3: Eric Bischoff and then Tony Givanni then came out and

863
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 3: surprised everybody, and then everybody lost their stuff. But I

864
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 3: think those are the fun ones because you get that

865
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 3: interaction and the people can ask you guys questions that

866
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 3: they don't get to normally do.

867
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,359
Speaker 2: I mean, they could tweet the question all day long,

868
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:13,240
Speaker 2: but right.

869
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Speaker 1: And and and the guys usually we're quite a few

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Speaker 1: drinks and so it's very unfiltered, so they're not going

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Speaker 1: to get like the political Rocky Romeo answer the political

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Speaker 1: uh you know yeah. So yeah, So sometimes I worry about,

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00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: you know, what what we do and say. But you know,

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Speaker 1: it's all in good fun. And the cool thing is

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Speaker 1: that it like honestly is the fans kind of get that.

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00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: And they're like really protective of us as well, so

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Speaker 1: like they're not like, you know, holding us to like

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Speaker 1: the ship we said, you know, yeah, And.

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Speaker 2: That's when you know you had good fans, because they're just.

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00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: It's all good fun and and and and we're we're hammed.

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Speaker 1: So we're hamming it up anyway. It's not probably not

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00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: even the truth of how we actually feel. If we

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Speaker 1: answer something some way, you know, it's just hamming it up.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: Sure there's nobody on. They dressed up somebody like Sting

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Speaker 4: and his name sang that kind of thing.

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Speaker 3: I love the talking shopping MANA. Is there any plans

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Speaker 3: to do another one? Because I know every time we've

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Speaker 3: we've talked to the Good Brothers about it and I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 3: you've got some under the belt.

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Speaker 2: Is there another one?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've written quite a bit of this talking

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Speaker 1: Chopping Mania three, Me and Galas are all in Carl Anderson.

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00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,800
Speaker 1: We cannot get him to move. But the last conversation

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Speaker 1: we had about it, he said, wow, all this talent

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Speaker 1: that got released from WW it might be time to

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Speaker 1: do talking shopping man. So he may be right on that.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we me and gals are always maybe pushing it

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Speaker 1: too quickly, but maybe it feels maybe a little more

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Speaker 1: uh natural to kind of like maybe do it now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: very interesting releases.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you ever need to marks to come

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Speaker 3: a part of it, you've got to right here.

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Speaker 1: Though. We need we need as many minions as we

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Speaker 1: can get.

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Speaker 4: I'll wear the new Japan jacket and I'll wear a

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Speaker 4: good Brothers shirt.

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00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, whip it.

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00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 4: Yeah. And then you know, next year, being the fiftieth anniversary,

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00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 4: why not have talk Shop three tid in boom.

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00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,359
Speaker 1: Right now Japan versus Talking Shop.

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00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:15,760
Speaker 4: But oh there there would love to see I would

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00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 4: love to see like Okada with like.

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00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: The cock Darcher.

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Speaker 2: Go a have mooda versus staying Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Which one is it? Is it Chad too bad? Is

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00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 4: that the on? Is that one of them?

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00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 1: Chat too bad?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:33,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, so like him and Okata faced at a range.

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Speaker 1: The rematch that nobody want to see two two or

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Speaker 1: what is it? Twenty twelve one?

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Speaker 3: Finally, yeah, well, Rocky, we don't want to take up

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Speaker 3: too much of your time.

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00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 2: It's been an honor talking with you again. And uh,

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Speaker 2: before we let.

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Speaker 3: You go, is there anything you want to say to

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00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,760
Speaker 3: everybody out there that's watching and or listening.

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00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, check out New Japan Strong. It's the, like I said,

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00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: the offshoot brand of New Japan Arrestling here in the States.

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00:41:56,640 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: It's it's an awesome weekly television show. Uh so like

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00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: an hour long. You can check it out on Fight

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00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:06,319
Speaker 1: TV or in New Japan World every Saturday night. And

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Speaker 1: we're also going to be touring, so check out NJPW

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two dot com to get tickets and info

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00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: for coming to your area, and also check out Talking

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Speaker 1: Shop every Sunday drops Good Brothers and I well sometimes I,

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00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 1: but the Good Brothers are are are. I took a

939
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Speaker 1: little bit of a sabbatical, but I should be back

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Speaker 1: probably in the next week or two. So so yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty much it. Thanks.

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Speaker 4: Check out on Twitter music goes. Is that under your

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Speaker 4: name or do you have cool.

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Speaker 1: Rocky Romaro on Spotify, Apple iTunes or whatever you listen

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00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 1: to music, you can find me. Rocky Marrow just put

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Speaker 1: out a brand new theme song that I'm gonna be

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Speaker 1: using for two thousand and the rest of twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: twenty two. So yeah, definitely check it out. It's called

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Speaker 1: grad Finale. It's pretty awesome.

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Speaker 3: Go stream it right now and put that repeat button

951
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 3: on it and just let them play over and over.

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00:42:58,120 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, get me pay over.

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00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,800
Speaker 2: Rocky paid multiple ways by his merge. Listen to his music,

954
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 2: Listen to the.

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Speaker 3: Podcast Get Everything that. If it says Rocky Romero's name on.

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Speaker 2: It, just click by.

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Speaker 1: Have you heard them?

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Speaker 3: Man? Do it?

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00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 2: Rocky again, thank you so much for coming on the

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Speaker 2: show tonight with us.

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00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,720
Speaker 1: Thank you both for having me. It's been really awesome.

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Speaker 1: It's nice to see you guys again, of course, man, great.

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Speaker 2: Seeing you as well.

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Speaker 5: We hope you enjoyed today's episode of the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 5: Make sure you give it five stars and a nice review.

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Speaker 5: To stay up to date with the show, follow them

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Speaker 5: at Battleground Podcast on Instagram.