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Speaker 1: Hey, this is the National Treasure and the Real World's

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Speaker 1: Champion Nick All this and when I'm not watching NBA

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Speaker 1: Powell like you should all be on Fight TV, you

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Speaker 1: can be listening to the Battleground Podcast like I do occasionally.

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Speaker 2: Why from the Parts Unknown Studios.

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Speaker 3: Into the Dumble Battle Crown.

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Speaker 4: The Battle Round, the Battle Ground.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Battleground Podcast, your place for all things

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Speaker 2: pro wrestling, the Battle Road, the Battle Round now making

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Speaker 2: their way to the microphones.

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Speaker 1: Give it up for your hosts.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Battle Crown. Welcome back to another episode

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Speaker 3: of the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 5: Gonna bring in my tag team.

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Speaker 3: Partner Eli and uh you know, Eli, This Sunday is

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Speaker 3: a big thing going on on Fight TV, and we

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Speaker 3: are excited that it is back. NWA is back, back

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Speaker 3: for the Attack live on Fight this Sunday, March twenty

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Speaker 3: first and four pm Eastern. And it just so happens

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Speaker 3: that on the show today the Real World's Champion, the

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Speaker 3: National Treasure.

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Speaker 5: There he is. Nick audis joined us. Nick. What's going

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Speaker 5: on man?

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Speaker 1: Thank you gentlemen.

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Speaker 4: It's a pleasure to be here and I'm happy to

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Speaker 4: talk all things NWA and back.

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Speaker 3: For the Attack Man we are super excited when that happened.

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Speaker 3: And kind of before we get into it, did your

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Speaker 3: relationship with Fight, because you're a correspondent with him, did

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Speaker 3: that kind of help get NWA on Fight and all

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Speaker 3: this stuff that's going on.

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Speaker 4: In a word, yes, I was obviously working doing some

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Speaker 4: moonlighting with Fight, and I was privy to.

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Speaker 1: What a great year they had had financially.

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Speaker 4: So Mike Weber, who's the COO at Fight, he and

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Speaker 4: I go way back.

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Speaker 1: We work together at TNA.

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Speaker 4: He was he was he was marketing at CNA for

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Speaker 4: many years, and Mike and I always had a great relationship.

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Speaker 4: We worked together on a lot of stuff, particularly aimed

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Speaker 4: It's been it's been very rewarding working with Fight, helping

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Speaker 4: I think just basically, look a long story short, Like

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Speaker 4: I said, Fight had a monster year with all these

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Speaker 1: Their their best bet was to.

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Speaker 4: Pivot and to try to do digital pay per view,

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Speaker 4: and Fight are the king of digital pay per view.

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Speaker 4: They pride themselves on being very very accessible, very easy

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Speaker 4: just because you know, it's so important when it comes

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Speaker 4: He's worked with Billy now for for a couple of years,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and that this relationship seems like Taylor made for

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Speaker 4: It's an unprecedented deal that they've entered into with US

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Speaker 1: Like Billy because he didn't tell me that he was

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Speaker 1: But but I texted.

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Speaker 3: And we didn't like we saw it. We started kind

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Speaker 3: and it's like is this it? Like, what's going on?

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Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, boom, it's right there.

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Speaker 3: N w A is back, the video comes out, it's

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Speaker 3: on Fight once this is over on Sunday. Have they announced,

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Speaker 4: Uh it's I thought they had, but I guess maybe

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Speaker 1: But there you go.

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Speaker 4: It's my understanding that to to watch NWA Power you

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Speaker 5: Oh that's gonna hurt my bank account.

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Speaker 1: I can't do it.

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Speaker 6: It was what the hell?

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Speaker 1: I mean?

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Speaker 4: You you are reading some of these people's response to

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Speaker 4: this pricing structures, It's like it's like we're asking them

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Speaker 4: count yeah, I'm not for a wrestling show.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well I'm sorry, you know sorry.

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Speaker 1: But you know, yeah, look it was.

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Speaker 4: It was something that we had, uh, sort of discussed

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Speaker 1: We we we've.

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Speaker 4: And the really cool thing about the NWA fans is

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Speaker 3: And you you get, you get great content because that

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Speaker 5: It brought back studio wrestling. It was fun to watch.

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Speaker 4: And look, you know, I know it's not it seems

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Speaker 1: So yeah, and it's well we made attention. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 4: Ye are all for the commercials that have that have

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Speaker 4: it's like there's nothing you can prepare for for that

442
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,640
Speaker 4: because it does something different to you.

443
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 1: You know, like it did like you know, like.

444
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 4: All ended for Cody with with the weight of that

445
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 4: and you know, with the with the with the pressure

446
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:26,879
Speaker 4: of you know, with and the and the sort of

447
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 4: the sentiment of his late father and and the you know,

448
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 4: the significance of the title and everything like that.

449
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:34,200
Speaker 1: It's the same thing.

450
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 4: And you know, sometimes moments like that can just prove

451
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 4: to be that little bit of extra gash you need.

452
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 4: So the time will tell. We'll see on Sunday. But look,

453
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 4: as I said, the thing, you know, I don't get ready.

454
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 4: I stay ready. You know this is it's any way.

455
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:52,639
Speaker 6: You can be worth camping for this long if you

456
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:54,399
Speaker 6: stay ready. You don't have to turn a switch on.

457
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 6: You're just ready.

458
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 3: That's what happens when you're the national treasure, the current

459
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 3: n w A eight and seventy five day champion.

460
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,119
Speaker 5: I mean, you got to always be ready for that.

461
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:07,920
Speaker 3: So last time we had you on the show, you're

462
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 3: kind of talking about things off the camera of things

463
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:12,639
Speaker 3: that you're in the work, and let's just kind of

464
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 3: go through this. You've entered into a partnership with a

465
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,400
Speaker 3: suit line, you had a book coming out, an old

466
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 3: school figure of yourself, which is freaking phenomenal. Let's see,

467
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 3: you launched a supplement company. I mean, you are a

468
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 3: super busy guy. Which ones of these excite you the most,

469
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 3: and are there any other upcoming projects that you can

470
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 3: tell us about.

471
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 1: Uh, I'm always, I'm always working.

472
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,479
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm always I'm always dabbling in different things.

473
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,679
Speaker 4: Some of them don't some of them don't really get anywhere,

474
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 4: and then some of them might, you know, stick with

475
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 4: a little longer. And that's just sort of the way

476
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:52,400
Speaker 4: that I harnessed my add I think. But the supplement

477
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 4: line is is very much my focus. The supplement company,

478
00:25:56,200 --> 00:26:01,120
Speaker 4: Legacy Sports Nutrition, Legacy subs dot com. We had we've had,

479
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,919
Speaker 4: you know, we launched, we had a soft launch at

480
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 4: the end of last year and then more of a

481
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,880
Speaker 4: more of a traditional launch in here in the new year.

482
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: And yeah, so far, so good.

483
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 4: We've had some we've had some some really good e

484
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:22,640
Speaker 4: comm sales. We've we've started we've started now venturing out

485
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 4: into different advertising sort of partnerships with different shows, and.

486
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,879
Speaker 1: It's it's it's ticking along nicely.

487
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 4: And yeah, there was we've had some interests already from

488
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 4: some pretty significant retailers about potentially getting the products on

489
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,639
Speaker 4: the shelves in some places, which was not something I

490
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 4: had anticipated this early on. That was sort of something

491
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,120
Speaker 4: I had sort of mapped out for maybe a year

492
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 4: from now, but man, the fact that that there's already

493
00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 4: some interest there from some retailers is really exciting. Yeah,

494
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 4: the the suit line is an interesting one because it's

495
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 4: you know, it's it's it's very hands off for me,

496
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 4: like it.

497
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: Was, it's you know, Nazia Suits, who make who make

498
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: all my suits that you see on the show. He's

499
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 1: just he's just.

500
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:23,199
Speaker 4: Been very very happy with the response in terms of

501
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 4: working with me basically as a sort of brand ambassador.

502
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 4: And it was really his ideas the ad, you know,

503
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 4: the Nazir He just he was kind of like, hey,

504
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 4: I think you could have your own line. You know,

505
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 4: you pick the fabrics and you pick the cuts and

506
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 4: the styles and everything like that, and you know, so

507
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 4: they're all and will market them and you know that

508
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 4: it's it's a very cool thing to to have, you know,

509
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 4: your own suit line. I just I'm very flattered that

510
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 4: people are people. I feel, as the kids say, you know,

511
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,679
Speaker 4: I've got I've got enough drip, you know what I

512
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 4: mean that people want to try to replicate the look.

513
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 4: So yeah, only go to Nazia Suits dot com and

514
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 4: you can you can look for the Nick Ortis collection

515
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 4: and you can you can swag out like the champ.

516
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 3: I'm just waiting for us to be at like a

517
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 3: wrestle con convention or something and somebody strolls up to

518
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 3: your table with your suit and be like.

519
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,199
Speaker 5: Hey, can you sign this? Like that's gonna be like

520
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,159
Speaker 5: a basketball jersey or somebody.

521
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 4: It would be so tragic, I would I would be

522
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 4: really that would. It would break my heart to take

523
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 4: them stoppy and sign on the sign on the But hey,

524
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 4: look at the end of the day, if they're paying.

525
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:36,679
Speaker 1: You know they'll get it.

526
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 6: Just give them a name.

527
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 4: I would love to encourage my fans too, when, especially when,

528
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 4: you know when, when once we start opening up again,

529
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 4: which I think is going to happen fairly soon. I

530
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 4: would love to encourage my fans to identify themselves, you know,

531
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 4: as classy, cultured wrestling fans, and to attend wrestling shows

532
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 4: dressed nicely.

533
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: You know, in a shirt and tie and a suit.

534
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 4: I think that would be I think that would be

535
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 4: a very very easy way to distinguish yourself from the

536
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 4: rest of the rabble, you know, the rest of the

537
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 4: riff raff.

538
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 6: Well, mark my word. Once this interview gets out, You're

539
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 6: gonna start seeing people at power in suits.

540
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 5: Now, that's what's gonna happen.

541
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 6: To even call them power suits. How about that? That

542
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 6: was that was not great?

543
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 3: Sorry jokes?

544
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, sorry, I think power suits are those female? I

545
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 6: don't think I.

546
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: Think it would. I think it was. I think it was.

547
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: I think it was establishing the eighties power tie.

548
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 6: Power tie.

549
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 1: Yeah.

550
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, Well to get back to the question,

551
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 6: so kind of you know, piggyback on off of that,

552
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 6: what do you think, uh, life looks like after wrestling

553
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 6: for you? You know, you you and like maybe you

554
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 6: and Mickey talk about opening a school together or are

555
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 6: you still trying to do you know, more of these

556
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 6: non wrestling ventures.

557
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: Well, look, I mean I consider wrestling one of my

558
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: entrepreneurial one of your income streams. Sure, I think that's

559
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: the healthiest way to look at the industry. And I

560
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: think that if you can, if you.

561
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 4: Can establish some synergy between them, you know, then then

562
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 4: more power to you. I think if you look at

563
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 4: the example set by guys like The Rock or Connor McGregor,

564
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 4: you know, people like that, A typically their most successful

565
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 4: ventures are ones that can sort of correlate with with

566
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 4: their own image and and what they what they represent.

567
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: So I've certainly borrowed from that. But it's but.

568
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 4: Look, I get I get a tremendous amount of satisfaction

569
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 4: out of working behind the scenes and and helping the company.

570
00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: On a on a business level really at this point

571
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 1: as much as I do as a performer.

572
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 4: Obviously they're very different feelings, but to me, they're equally gratifying,

573
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 4: and I'm very blessed in that respect because there are

574
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 4: a lot of performers in our industry who can't get

575
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 4: rid of that bug, you know, who want to hold

576
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 4: on forever as a performer because because nothing else really

577
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 4: scratches that itch.

578
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: I don't see myself as that. I Like I said,

579
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: I get.

580
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 4: A tremendous amount of enjoyment from working working for working

581
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 4: with the working with Billy on the you know, on

582
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 4: the company on an entrepreneurial level, and obviously from my

583
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 4: own ventures. I think it's just I think it's healthier

584
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 4: that way, but it also I think it I don't know.

585
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: I think that.

586
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 4: The the the more I'm diversified, the more I'm able

587
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 4: to really admit to wrestling when the time is right

588
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 4: and really channel my passion and love for the business

589
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 4: because it's not being it's not being run into the ground.

590
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: You know, it's not being Does that make sense?

591
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 4: You know, because you're not because because you're not letting them,

592
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 4: because you're not letting the business totally consume you and

593
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 4: sort of and then wear you down.

594
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: It could you know, after a while you can crack

595
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: like that.

596
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 4: So for me to be able to spend you know,

597
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 4: half my day kind of working on on legacy sports

598
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 4: nutrition and working on some other things, it means that

599
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 4: then you know, if like when I switch off or

600
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 4: or when I like after I've had dinner and just

601
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 4: you know, put Donovan to bed, if I'm going to

602
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 4: sort of you know, crack open a bruski, you know,

603
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 4: maybe partake in a little bit of herbal medicine.

604
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: And you know, it's like I can watch some TV.

605
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 4: It's like suddenly some ideas will hit me, like that's

606
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 4: a great idea for an angle, it's a great idea

607
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 4: for a primo. It's got a different match like, oh,

608
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 4: you know what'd be awesome like if we did this.

609
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 4: It's just it's just it's healthier, right, and.

610
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of our best work gets done.

611
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 4: In the late hours kind of when you're when you're

612
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 4: not trying to force it, especially creative creatively, A lot

613
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 4: of you know, I would say more than half of

614
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 4: my best kind of contributions on a creative level usually

615
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 4: just a result of sort of texting back and forth

616
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 4: with someone just so it sort of a Sometimes it

617
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 4: can be just the kind of a germ of an

618
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 4: idea that then you know, you share it with a

619
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 4: few people that you trust and a few people that

620
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 4: you can bounce ideas off that you vibe well with,

621
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 4: and suddenly it, you know, blossoms into this you know good,

622
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 4: it's really good plan, and you know that I see

623
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 4: myself always being involved in the business, but I see

624
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 4: it as one of my ventures. Yeah, it's you know,

625
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 4: I mean, look ah, my wife has an expensive lifestyle.

626
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: You know, and I want to I want to provide

627
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 1: my son the best best life possible, you know, in private.

628
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 4: School, and you know, any opportunities for him to pursue

629
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 4: anything he wants to pursue.

630
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: So it's like, I.

631
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 4: I like making money. I want to make money. I

632
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 4: want to be able to contribute to other things.

633
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 1: I really, I really.

634
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 4: Want to start doing more philanthropic stuff in the next

635
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 4: couple of years. You know, I just I've got to

636
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 4: get myself to a position where I can you know,

637
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 4: where that's feasible for me.

638
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: But I you know, I get it.

639
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 4: I get a great deal of pride, you know, I

640
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 4: get a gratification from doing those sorts of things as well.

641
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 4: I'm very I'm very inspired. And I don't talk about

642
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 4: this often because I think because of the wrestling business

643
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,800
Speaker 4: sort of implication of it. But I'm actually a huge

644
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 4: fan of Ted Turner. But on a but as a

645
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 4: as a as an American businessman, as an entrepreneur, as

646
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 4: a as an icon of American entrepreneurialism. I don't talk

647
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 4: about it much because obviously wrestling fans are just so

648
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 4: wired to just immediately be like, oh, the w CW.

649
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 5: Guy, right, he had other things other than w c W.

650
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 4: It was w was a footnote in his you know,

651
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 4: in his in his life and his accomplishments and his

652
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 4: business portfolio, you know. And but I, I mean I

653
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:42,320
Speaker 4: take great inspiration from Ted Turner his contributions to American society,

654
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 4: as you knows, as a businessman, I mean, you know,

655
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,760
Speaker 4: his I mean, there's a confuses the media, but also

656
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 4: now his efforts on an ecological level.

657
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: I mean he's talk about guy gave a billion dollars

658
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: to the un I mean, you know, just just this.

659
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 4: This guy who just has this unbelievable kind of zest

660
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 4: for doing great things. And I think that's kind of

661
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 4: what I you know, I that's that's sort of what

662
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 4: I take inspiration from for the rest of my life.

663
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 4: I just I just want to do great things.

664
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, even if you kind of look at your boss,

665
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 6: and I'd say that jokingly, but Billy, I mean, you know,

666
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 6: he's got the pumpkins, he's got a solo music, he's

667
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 6: got a T shop, he's got art, he's got.

668
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Speaker 1: The n w A.

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Speaker 6: I mean, like, you know, I think the days of

670
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Speaker 6: that like one income stream CEO, Like I think those

671
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 6: are gone, you know. I mean even if you look

672
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 6: at the Rock, I mean he's not just doing acting.

673
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 6: He's doing a ton of stuff, you know. So I think,

674
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 6: like that's the that's the modern guy now. I mean

675
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 6: I think you've got to have a lot of different avenues.

676
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 4: The average, the average the average millionaire has seven revenue.

677
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 6: Streams, seven streams, right, you know.

678
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 4: So that that that that right there would even if

679
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 4: people are well known for one in particular, there's you know,

680
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 4: usually if you delve deep enough, there's property, and there's investments.

681
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: And as other things like that.

682
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 6: So absolutely, and I have.

683
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: Some of that too.

684
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 4: You know, I don't talk about it, but but I

685
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 4: obviously have a barely diversified portfolio and even even invested in, uh,

686
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 4: you know, in a friend's business who's in the in

687
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 4: the wrestling business. I don't, I don't talk about it,

688
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 4: but that investment has paid off really well, you know,

689
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 4: and their business is thriving, and you know I was.

690
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: I was happy to be able to help and it's

691
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:27,760
Speaker 1: been great.

692
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 4: So you know, it's it's yeah, like it just keeping

693
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 4: keeping a lot of pots boiling is kind of my

694
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:40,840
Speaker 4: favorite way to to approach approach life and business exactly.

695
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 3: And of course, this Sunday you could watch n w

696
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 3: A Back for the Attack live on Fight. Uh. It

697
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 3: starts at four pm Eastern. You can actually win a

698
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 3: code we're giving away. We've teamed up with Fight to

699
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 3: give away a code for you to watch it for

700
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 3: free over on my social You just got to find

701
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Speaker 3: me battle on air.

702
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 5: That's where I'm at. You can get that code to

703
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Speaker 5: enter to win.

704
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 3: But something uh that I stumbled across the other day

705
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 3: as I was scrolling through TikTok for I don't know

706
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 3: how long, there was a video of Nick all This.

707
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 3: But he wasn't Nick All This. He was Magnus in

708
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 3: this video. So the clip was you, and it's not

709
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 3: I promise the clip was you.

710
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 6: It's not embarrassing for you. We should say the.

711
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 5: Other guy it was. It was you, Kurt Angle and

712
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 5: Chris Saban. It was on TLC.

713
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 3: It was on TLC and it was like the World's

714
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 3: Cheapest Wrestlers. And for those that don't know, it was

715
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 3: a guy that was green came in for a try

716
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 3: out with Impact Wrestling and had taped wrapped around his

717
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 3: boots because he wouldn't spend ninety seven since on his shoelaces.

718
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 5: And then they did some other stuff that he did

719
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 5: with wrestling and stuff.

720
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 3: If you could talk to him right now, I don't

721
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 3: know where he's at, But what advice would you give

722
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 3: him today? Considering the role and position you're currently in.

723
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 4: I would say that the old adage of old publicity

724
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 4: is good publicity is complete bullshit. I've never by the way,

725
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 4: I've never I've never believed in that sentiment because in wrestling,

726
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 4: you know, a lot of the time fans are going

727
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 4: to make are going to put you in a box

728
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 4: based on the first significant thing you do, and that unfortunately,

729
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,760
Speaker 4: you know, look, I don't know anything about the guy.

730
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 4: I just I always just got the feeling. I've worked

731
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 4: enough in TV outside of wrestling to know that oftentimes

732
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:31,479
Speaker 4: these things are sort of.

733
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: You know, played up for the camera.

734
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 4: Like I never really got the feeling that he was

735
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:45,240
Speaker 4: this you know, particularly cheap guy. But look, anything anything,

736
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 4: you can bounce back from anything, like you just you

737
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:53,919
Speaker 4: just you know, you shouldna be careful when you're young,

738
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 4: You're you're just desperate to get on TV in any way,

739
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 4: shape or form, not thinking about the fact that, hey,

740
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 4: one day, when I'm better at this and I have

741
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 4: when I have built some I've built some market value

742
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 4: for myself and I've built a profile, this stuff lives

743
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 4: forever and look, and I'm certainly not immune to that myself.

744
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: I mean, people can dig up stuff on me and

745
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: be like, what's this.

746
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 4: Fortunately, you know, you have to build up enough of

747
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 4: a body of work where you can laugh at it

748
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 4: and sort of show some humility, but it's tough, you know,

749
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 4: you have to sometimes Sometimes the best thing to do

750
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 4: is to work on.

751
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: Your craft quietly. Mm hmm.

752
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,800
Speaker 4: That would be the best advice I would give him.

753
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,280
Speaker 3: Yeah.

754
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 6: Well, before we got on camera, we were kind of

755
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 6: joking about a popular term that's been thrown out by

756
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 6: the wrestling community. I won't say that just because I

757
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,399
Speaker 6: don't want we live in the same states. I don't

758
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 6: want you to hunt me down. But in recent weeks

759
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 6: there has been a gentleman by the name of Kinney

760
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 6: Omega who has been taken on the moniker of the

761
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 6: belt collector, which is not a new gimmick. We've seen

762
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 6: that several times in the past. Is there any world

763
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,879
Speaker 6: where you'd be open to a title versus title match?

764
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 6: I mean, you've obviously had a historic match with Cody,

765
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 6: so you're used to something to this level on this groundbreaking.

766
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,399
Speaker 6: Is it something you're open to or is it right now?

767
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 6: Is it just your full focus?

768
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: Is then w A, Well my focus is the n

769
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Speaker 1: w A. Yes, yeah, I'm open to it.

770
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 4: It comes down to it comes down to one thing,

771
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,760
Speaker 4: money moon neck, make make the price right, brother.

772
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, it's just I don't know.

773
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 6: I just have you ever faced him before? I have not?

774
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: No, no, Uh.

775
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 4: I think that it seems like it would. It's a

776
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 4: match that people would pay to see. So how badly

777
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 4: you are they willing to pay.

778
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 1: To see it?

779
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 5: And can you open that check book up right?

780
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: Who's you know you're gonna roll the dice? You know? Yeah,

781
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: I think make it happen.

782
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 4: Like what you know, business is business at the end

783
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 4: of the day, it's you know, like it's that's That's

784
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 4: what it comes down to. But my responsibility is to

785
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 4: try to build my market value and build the market

786
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 4: value of the n w A.

787
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:26,879
Speaker 1: That's what's what I'm under contract to do.

788
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the I think the pill obviously is

789
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 6: just because of the working relationship with thunder Rosen in

790
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 6: aw But you know, you are kind of that old

791
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 6: school in w A chap. I mean, I've seen you

792
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 6: wrestle in Clarksonville, Tennessee. You know, I've seen you wrestle

793
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 6: in Chicago, Illinois. I mean, like you're you're going wherever

794
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 6: you the challenge is. You were doing this stuff in Hollywood.

795
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:50,319
Speaker 4: You seem right, You're just going to say, you see

796
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 4: me defend the title and Bring of Honor and multiple

797
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 4: different and.

798
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:57,240
Speaker 1: And you saw.

799
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 4: Wrestless from New Japan Programing and cml L and Ring

800
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 4: of Honor all appear in the Crockett Cup.

801
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: So you know, again, like you said, this ain't nothing new.

802
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 4: No, like it's you know, certain fans like to like

803
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 4: to sort of take you know, take credit for the

804
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 4: creation of you know, stuff like like everything.

805
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,839
Speaker 1: That's it's all happened in the last two years miraculously.

806
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 1: But you know, look, more power to you, right, whatever

807
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:25,399
Speaker 1: helps you sleep at night.

808
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

809
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 6: Oh, and it was also we were pretty excited, I guess,

810
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 6: which this is not a huge thing, but Meltzer that

811
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 6: they are recognizing then w a world championship as a

812
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 6: legitimate world title, which we.

813
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: Were sorry, sorry, who is they?

814
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 6: I think that was Meltzer. Wasn't it Meltzer? P w

815
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Speaker 6: I I think?

816
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Speaker 2: Or was that.

817
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Speaker 4: Or yeah, p w y I did see the I

818
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 4: did see the the article about that.

819
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:58,959
Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of them okay.

820
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 6: Like whatever, yeah, I mean it's, like I said, not

821
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 6: a huge thing, but still it's I don't know, we

822
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 6: it was always a head scratcher when we were like, well,

823
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 6: this is arguably the you know, the oldest title in

824
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 6: North American wrestling.

825
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 1: Like, why the Lineal is the Lineal Heavyweight Championship?

826
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 6: It absolutely is.

827
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I said I said.

828
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 4: This before, But like, I don't have anything against guys

829
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 4: who are able to make a living from convincing fans of,

830
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 4: you know, of a genre that they've never actively participated in,

831
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 4: that they're expert authorities on it. I find it kind

832
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:44,879
Speaker 4: of strange. But I have the endorsement of Holly Race. Yeah,

833
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 4: there's a picture behind me. You can see it.

834
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, that picture popped up on one of my

835
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 6: feeds the other day. Actually, this is a this is.

836
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: A I just received this yesterday.

837
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 4: That's a that's the Senate resolution from the State of

838
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,400
Speaker 4: Georgia declaring October twenty first is.

839
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 1: NWA Day in the State of Georgia.

840
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 4: That was presenting me yesterday by the Governor of Georgia,

841
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 4: Governor Camp and Senator Mullis. There's a over here.

842
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,359
Speaker 1: That's a that's a flag and a certificate.

843
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 4: That flag was flown by a military jet in my

844
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 4: name over over a stretch of land in Afghanistan in

845
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 4: the name of American freedom. Partificate somewhere that needs to

846
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 4: go on the wall. Declaring an NWA day in the

847
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 4: city of Pittsburgh.

848
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:54,760
Speaker 1: Also, you know the you know fan fiction fan sites.

849
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 4: You know these sort of these very very concentrated, minute

850
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:03,919
Speaker 4: groups of of die hard fanatical fans seem to have this,

851
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 4: they seem to have this sort of strange god complex

852
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 4: that somehow they represent.

853
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:10,720
Speaker 1: The entire world.

854
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 4: And it's fascinating. But I don't lose any sleep over it. Yeah,

855
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 4: you know, I take pride in meaningful recognition.

856
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 3: Right since, since we're kind of talking about photos, I

857
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 3: dig dug through my Facebook random albums that I found,

858
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 3: and I just want to know when we get back

859
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 3: to normal, can we I know that we could possibly

860
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 3: recreate you and somebody else in this photo, but I

861
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:38,240
Speaker 3: don't think the other person can be in this photo.

862
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 3: But I'm going to share it with you so you

863
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 3: can get a good laugh. And here it is, look

864
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 3: at that photo right there. So maybe when we get

865
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 3: back to normal, we can try to recreate somewhat of

866
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 3: that photo or just being you in the photo.

867
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I promise I won't. I promise I

868
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 4: won't do whatever that pose was I was trying.

869
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 1: To do that.

870
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Speaker 6: Well, I think mister young, he doesn't have his beard

871
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 6: anymore so now because there there it is. It's there

872
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,399
Speaker 6: it is. I don't know. I think Joe doesn't care.

873
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 6: So I mean he probably like if you showed him

874
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:09,919
Speaker 6: that and we were all in the same city, he'd

875
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 6: probably do it. I don't I don't know. Fine, Yeah,

876
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 6: what what's in store for the nw A for twenty

877
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 6: twenty one? What can we look forward to?

878
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 4: Well, look, our first step is to re establish NWA

879
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 4: Power and and too obviously we you know, we need

880
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 4: we need people to.

881
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 1: Go ahead and subscribe.

882
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,320
Speaker 4: If if you love NWA Power as much as as

883
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 4: the thousands and thousands and thousands of you, hundreds of thousands,

884
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 4: if you have told us that you do, we'd greatly

885
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 4: appreciate it.

886
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 1: If you paid for nine month to see it. Yes,

887
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: the the, I will say this the.

888
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 4: So we we have a new uh A new a

889
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:03,320
Speaker 4: new head of talent and basically sort of general general

890
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 4: manager of sort of wrestling operations. I was a official title,

891
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 4: but Pat Kenny, known to many as Simon Diamond. Pat

892
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 4: has stepped in and done a phenomenal job. And I

893
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:26,760
Speaker 4: feel very very good about a Pat. The dynamic of Pat, Billy,

894
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 4: Billy Trask and myself, you know, in some of the

895
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 4: capacities that I operate in, you know, more on a

896
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 4: sort of strategic level and more as a sort of

897
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:43,319
Speaker 4: consultant and and so, you know, more some of the

898
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 4: more trusted veteran voices like Stevens, Trevor Murdock, homicide. You know,

899
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 4: like we're a very open, collaborative sort of organization. When

900
00:48:55,760 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 4: it comes to that, there's no agendas. It's you know,

901
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:04,760
Speaker 4: it's it's built build the company. You know, sell cell tickets,

902
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 4: sell pay per view, sell subscriptions now. And one of

903
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:14,759
Speaker 4: the things that that you will see is you're going

904
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 4: to see a real good variety of talent because the

905
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:20,839
Speaker 4: n w A is going to operate a bit more

906
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 4: like an old school territory. Think of it almost like

907
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 4: a digital territory in the sense that you will have your.

908
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: Kind of.

909
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 4: Your main guys, you know, you're sort of regulars if

910
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 4: you like, or is there a stalwart stars of the

911
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 4: n w A guys synonymous with the n w A brand.

912
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:46,880
Speaker 4: But then you're going to see a healthy turnover of

913
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 4: different stars, different personalities. You're going to see this, you know,

914
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 4: from from season to season.

915
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 1: So if.

916
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 4: This season you're gonna you know, you're going to see

917
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 4: a a few new faces. Don't be surprised if you

918
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:07,879
Speaker 4: don't see some of those next season, because you'll see

919
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 4: new faces again. It doesn't mean they've left the company

920
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 4: or yeah, they've gone with their release. No no, no,

921
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:18,800
Speaker 4: like the it's it's a very nice kind of open

922
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 4: door kind of situation. The idea being that guys who

923
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 4: really want to come in and contribute and step up

924
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:29,800
Speaker 4: and like use the NWA to build their market value.

925
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 1: Totally encourage that.

926
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 4: Look what happened to you know, guys like Stocks and uh,

927
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 4: you know Eddie Kingston. You know obviously Eddie was established

928
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 4: already prior to coming in for us.

929
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: But you know.

930
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 4: You're gonna see guys who can utilize the platform and

931
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 4: help them, you know, in the market.

932
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 1: That's great.

933
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 4: We're totally cool with that, we're helped. We like contributing

934
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:57,280
Speaker 4: to the overall pro wrestling economy.

935
00:50:58,480 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: Uh.

936
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 4: We don't require you to hate any other promotion to

937
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:06,760
Speaker 4: love our show, and we don't require we don't require

938
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 4: wrestlers to be like bitter and you know, burning bridges

939
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 4: when they move on and do something else, like, we

940
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 4: don't encourage that.

941
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 1: We don't need that. We don't want that.

942
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 4: You know, do do right, like do good business, and

943
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 4: you know we will. There will be opportunities for guys

944
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:30,760
Speaker 4: to make money and to be showcased. So I'm excited

945
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 4: about that because it's to me, I feel like that's

946
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 4: kind of the way that the wrestling business thrives when

947
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:41,399
Speaker 4: there's you know, when guys are hungry and they want

948
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 4: to sort of step up, and you know, I'm very

949
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 4: looking from my from my point of view, I'm obviously

950
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:50,719
Speaker 4: very proud of the fact that I've been champion for

951
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:54,919
Speaker 4: so long, and I'm very I take great pride in

952
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 4: in what I've been able to do. But eventually somebody

953
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:07,800
Speaker 4: will step up and prove themselves worthy of being world champions.

954
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:10,759
Speaker 4: I don't know who that person is going to be, right,

955
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:19,400
Speaker 4: but they will. They will eventually, somebody will, and like that,

956
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 4: you know, I want that.

957
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:21,839
Speaker 1: I don't.

958
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 4: It's not I'm saying I don't want to be champion.

959
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 4: Of course I want to be champion, but if somebody does.

960
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 4: If somebody does that, that means great. Now we have

961
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 4: two and now we have two of us, you know,

962
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 4: and and then hopefully there's three and there's four and

963
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 4: like because, like I said, I I want to contribute,

964
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:49,320
Speaker 4: you know, to the overall business and you know, even

965
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 4: even more so than I already have.

966
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:52,720
Speaker 1: You know, this is just that, this is just the beginning,

967
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 1: I think, and.

968
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:55,919
Speaker 5: It's going to be it's gonna be a rocket ship.

969
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 3: Now that looks like things are starting to get back

970
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 3: to some normalcy with everybody getting the back scene and

971
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 3: everything and fans coming back. So we are super excited

972
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 3: about this, and especially Sunday when you can watch n

973
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 3: W A back for the Attack live on Fight. It's

974
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 3: going down four o'clock Eastern time. And real quick, before

975
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 3: I let you go, where's the best place people can

976
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 3: keep up with you? Where do you want to where's

977
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:17,280
Speaker 3: the best place?

978
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,120
Speaker 5: Like Twitter? Instagram? Facebook?

979
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:21,880
Speaker 4: Well, I tend to do most of my sort of

980
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 4: informational sort of updates on Twitter at real nick Oldis,

981
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 4: but then yeah, Instagram at Nicoldis.

982
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,239
Speaker 1: I'm verified on both, so so check that out.

983
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:34,359
Speaker 4: And then at the NWA is very simple, it's at

984
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:36,239
Speaker 4: NWA across across the board.

985
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 1: On all of them. But yeah, look we're super stoked

986
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:41,600
Speaker 1: about Back to the Attack.

987
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 4: A nice four pm Eastern start time, so it's a

988
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:49,799
Speaker 4: nice still giving people time to what if if you

989
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 4: want to watch fast Lane, like you don't have to choose, well,

990
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 4: you know, and and and it means that our fans

991
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:01,840
Speaker 4: in our fans in the UK and Ireland and Europe

992
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 4: get to watch it at a sociable hour as well,

993
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:06,320
Speaker 4: which they are so happy about.

994
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 3: Because you'll just got the new deal with Virgin over there, right, Fight.

995
00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 4: TV pay per views will now be certain Select Fight

996
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 4: TV pay per views will now be available on Virgin Media,

997
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:18,799
Speaker 4: starting with Back to the Attack, and I think that

998
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 4: includes a w shows. So nw back to the Attack

999
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:25,840
Speaker 4: is the is the maiden voyage for fight pay per

1000
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 4: views on Virgin Media's obviously again very flattered that they

1001
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:33,839
Speaker 4: that they deemed our pay per view the right way

1002
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 4: to start that off, you know, best foot forward and

1003
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 4: all that. So look, yeah it's it's it's full steam ahead.

1004
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 4: I mean the nw A, the Back to the Attack.

1005
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:46,760
Speaker 4: The lineup is killer, Who've got me and Stevens on top, Thunder,

1006
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:49,240
Speaker 4: Rosa and Camille has been a year in the making.

1007
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: Number one contender.

1008
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 4: Because Serena is out injured, so the winner of that

1009
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:56,879
Speaker 4: is number one contender for the Women's World Championship.

1010
00:54:57,880 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: Tom Latimer and Pope.

1011
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 4: That's gonna you know, that has that has potential to

1012
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 4: steal a show for the TV title.

1013
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 1: Uh, and there is there's more to come, That's.

1014
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 5: What we'd like to hear.

1015
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 1: Uh.

1016
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:12,359
Speaker 5: Well, Nick, thank you so much for being on the show.

1017
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:13,040
Speaker 5: Of course, we're.

1018
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 3: Super excited for Sunday and it's gonna be a great

1019
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 3: thing in the course hour back on Tuesday.

1020
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 1: Uh.

1021
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 3: Nick, is there anything you want to tell everybody before

1022
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 3: we sign off?

1023
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, buy the Fake of You and subscribe to Power

1024
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:24,160
Speaker 1: on Fight TV.

1025
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 3: Nick, thank you once again for being on the show

1026
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:28,280
Speaker 3: today with us.

1027
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Speaker 1: Appreciate it.

1028
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:33,680
Speaker 7: We hope you enjoyed today's episode of the Battleground Podcast.

1029
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:36,320
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1030
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:38,879
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